Events in History in 1992 (Part 3)

Events 401 - 425 of 425

• Dec 3 UN Security Council passes Resolution 794 authorizing US led allied forces to intervene in war-torn Somalia to restore order and allow humanitarian aid to be delivered

• 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 Bush issues a pardon to former National Security Advisor Robert McFarlane for his role in Iran-Contra Affair
• 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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