Events in History in 1992 (Part 3)

Events 401 - 435 of 435

• Nov 22 Washington Post reports Oregon Senator Bob Packwood sexually harassed 10 women

• Nov 23 10,000,000 cellular telephone sold
• Nov 24 Boeing 734 crashes into mountain in China, kills 141
• Nov 26 Sir Alec Jeffreys, British geneticist who developed widely-used techniques for DNA fingerprinting, becomes honorary freeman of the city of Leicester
• Nov 27 Howard Stern Interview premieres on E! Network
• Nov 27 Part of Vienna Hofburg destroyed by fire
• Nov 30 Intercity-train derailed at Village chief, 5 die
• Dec 1 2 C-141B Starlifters collide in Montana & crash, 13 die
• Dec 1 Amy Fisher sentenced 5-15 yrs for shooting Mary Jo Buttafuoco
• Dec 2 WQEW-AM radio replaces WQXR on 1560 in NYC
• Dec 3 UN Security Council votes unanimous for US led forces to enter Somalia
• Dec 3 The Greek oil tanker Aegean Sea, carrying 80,000 tonnes of crude oil, runs aground in a storm while approaching La Coruña, Spain, and spills much of its cargo

• Dec 6 300,000 hindus destroy mosque of Babri India, 4 die
• Dec 7 Galileo spacecraft passes North Pole of Moon (Peary Crater)
• Dec 8 Spacecraft Galileo makes its second and closest flyby of Earth at a minimum distance of 305 km for a gravity assist on its way to Jupiter [1]

• Dec 10 Orlanda Magic scores 14 3-pointers (2 shy of record)
• Dec 11 Nor'easter storm hits NY, doing $ Billion worth of damage
• Dec 11 WNEW AM radio on 1130 in NYC ends transmitting after 58 years
• Dec 12 6.8-7.5 earthquake strikes Flores Island (tsunami kills 3,000)

• Dec 13 FCC fines Infinity Broadcasting $600,000
• Dec 14 52 people, including 25 children, are killed when a helicopter from Tkvarcheli is shot down during the War in Abkhazia
• Dec 15 WNew AM (1130) NYC resigns air, replaced by WBBR
• Dec 17 Gen Suwa finds tooth of 4.4 million year old Australopithecus ramidus
• Dec 18 FCC vote 4-1 to allow Infinity to purchase Cook Inlet stations
• Dec 20 Northwest & KLM introduce a new joint logo "Worldwide Reliability"

• Dec 21 Dutch DC-10 in fire at landing on Faro Portugal, 56 die
• Dec 22 Libyan MIG-23UB attacks Boeing 727 at Souk al-Sabt, 158 die
• Dec 24 US President George H. W. Bush pardons Caspar Weinberger for Iran-contra affair
• Dec 27 13th United Negro College Fund raises $11,000,000
• Dec 29 Governor Cuomo grants Jean Harris (Scarsdale Diet Dr killer) clemency

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