- September 17
- Two Kurdish opposition leaders are assassinated by the Iranian Kazem Darabi and the Lebanese Abbas Rhayel. [33]
- September 19
- Liberian-registered oil tanker Nagasaki Spirit collides with container ship Ocean Blessing in the Malacca Straits off Indonesia, spilling about 14 million litres of crude oil. [522]
- September 23
- 928th and last nuclear bomb test in the USA. [1488.17]
- A large Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb destroys the forensic laboratories in Belfast. [33]
- September 26
- In Canada, three people share a CDN$18 million Lotto 6/49 jackpot. [40.82]
- September 27
- Enix releases the Dragon Quest V game for the Super Famicom in Japan. (2.8 million copies are sold over its lifetime.) [9]
- October 4
- An Israeli plane crashes in Amsterdam, the Netherlands; 43 are killed, many more injured. [33]
- October 5
- IBM Personal Computer company introduces the IBM ThinkPad line of laptop computers. [4]
- October 6
- Lennart Meri becomes the first president of re-independent Estonia. [33]
- October 9
- A 13-kilogram (29-pound) meteorite lands in the driveway of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, New York, destroying the family's 1980 Chevrolet Malibu (pierces trunk and floor). [5] [33] [521]
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- October 10
- Floriade (Flower Show) closes at the Hague, Netherlands. [1]
- October 12
- Expo 1992 closes in Seville, Spain. [1]
- In the Dominican Republic, Pope John Paul II congregates to celebrate the 500th anniversary on the meeting of two cultures. [33]
- In Egypt, a magnitude 5.8 earthquake occurs. At least 552 people killed, more than 9,929 injured and 8,300 buildings damaged or destroyed in the Cairo area. Estimate of damage about US$300 million. [53]
- French engineer Professor Jean Kerisel and assistants examine the underground chamber and passageways of the Great Pyramid. Using ground-penetrating radar and microgravimetry, they detect anomalies that could be corridors and shafts. [1618.51]
- October 14
- IBM and Motorola announce the production of PowerPC 601 microprocessors, in 50 MHz and 66 MHz versions. PowerPC stands for "Power Performance Chip", and incorporates an integer unit, a floating-point unit, and 32 MB cache. [4]
- October 15
- In Russia, Andrei Chikatilo is found guilty of 52 serial murders. [33]
- Special envoy from Russia gives Poland's president copies of documents authorizing the 1940 execution of 26,000 Polish servicemen, which had been denied by the Soviet Union for 50 years. [968.48]
- October 17
- Yoshihiro Hattori, a 16-year-old Japanese exchange student, mistakes the address of a party and is shot dead after knocking on the wrong door in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The shooter, Rodney Peairs, is later acquitted, sparking outrage in Japan. [33]
- October 18
- In Northern Colombia, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake occurs. [53]
- October 23
- In Morocco, a magnitude 5.2 earthquake occurs. [53]
- October 25
- Lithuania holds a referendum on its first constitution after declaring independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. [33]
- October 26
- In Canada, the Charlottetown Accord is defeated in a national referendum. [33]
- October 30
- Disney releases the film Beauty and the Beast on videocassette. One million copies sell on the first day. (In total, 22 million sell worldwide.) [6]
- October 31
- Pope John Paul II issues an apology, and lifts the edict of the Inquisition against Galileo Galilei. [33]
- November 3
- U.S. presidential election: Bill Clinton defeats incumbent U.S. President George H.W. Bush and businessman H. Ross Perot. [1] [33]
- November 9
- Helmut Kohl, Michail Gorbatschov and Ronald Reagan are made honorary citizens of Berlin for their contributions to German reunification. [37]
- November 11
- The Church of England votes to allow women to become priests. [1] [33]
- November 13
- Buena Vista releases the film Aladdin to theaters. (Total world gross ticket sales: $504 million (1st for 1992).) [943]
- November 20
- In England, a fire breaks out in the Private Chapel room of Windsor Castle, rages for 15 hours, and seriously damages 100 rooms of the northwest corner of the building. (An investigation finds that the fire was ignited after a spotlight came into contact with a curtain over an extended period.) [33] [1427.10] [1731.42]
- November 24
- In the People's Republic of China, a China Southern Airlines domestic flight crashes, killing all 141 people on-board. [1] [33]
- November 25
- The Czechoslovakia Federal Assembly votes to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, starting on January 1, 1993. [33]
- November 30
- The trial of 14 South Vietnamese accused of murdering 24 North Vietnamese begins in Hong Kong (ends November 29, 1994). [33]
- December 3
- United Nations Security Council Resolution 794 is unanimously passed, approving a coalition of United Nations peacekeepers led by the United States to form UNITAF, tasked with ensuring humanitarian aid gets distributed and establishing peace in Somalia. [1] [33]
- The Greek oil tanker Aegean Sea, carrying 80,000 tonnes of crude oil, runs aground in a storm while on approach to La Coruña, Spain, and spills much of its cargo (about 93 million litres). [33] [522]
- December 4
- U.S. military forces land in Somalia. [1] [33]
- December 6
- 300,000 Hindus demolish Babri Masjid (a 16th century mosque) in Ayodhya, India. Four die; riots follow. [1] [33]
- December 8
- The last blast is fired in the Falu Copper Mine in central Sweden. The mine operation is claimed to be the world's oldest industrial worksite, operating continuously for at least 1000 years. The site is now shutting down due to lack of workable ore. [7] [33]
- December 9
- 1800 U.S. Marines storm Mogadishu, Somalia, first units of a multinational force to restore order and provide starvation relief. [129]
- Prince Charles and Princess Diana separation announced by British Prime Minister, John Major. [1] [1731.42]
- December 11
- Nor'easter storm hits New York, doing $650 million+ worth of damage. [1]
- December 12
- In Flores Region, Indonesia, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake occurs. At least 2,200 people killed or missing in the Flores region, more than 500 people injured and 40,000 left homeless. Tsunami wave heights of up to 25 metres. [1] [33] [53]
- Japanese crown prince Naruhito announces engagement to Masaka Owada. [1]
- Julia Kurotchkina, 18, of Russia, crowned 42nd Miss World. [1]
- December 16
- Israel orders deportation of 415 Palestinians after escalating terrorist activity. [1]
- December 17
- General Suwa finds tooth of 4.4 million-year-old Australopithecus ramidus. [1]
- December 20
- Northwest and KLM introduce a new joint logo "Worldwide Reliability". [1]
- Slobodan Milosevic re-elected President of Serbia. [1]
- The Folies Bergere music hall in Paris, France closes. [33]
- December 21
- A Dutch DC-10, flight Martinair MP 495, crashes at Faro Airport in Portugal, killing 56 people. [1] [33]
- December 22
- Libyan MIG-23UB attacks Boeing 727 at Souk al-Sabt, 158 die. [1]
- December 29
- Brazil's president Fernando Collor de Mello is found guilty on charges that he stole more than $32 million from the government, preventing him from holding any elected office for eight years. [33]
- December 30
- Ling-Ling, first panda China gave US, dies at age 23. [1]
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