1992

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Clockwise from top left: Mae Jemison becomes the first black woman in space during the STS-47 mission; the U.S. men's Olympic basketball team, nicknamed the 'Dream Team', win gold at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona; Paul Keating acknowledges the crimes committed against Indigenous Australians since the European settlement of Australia and calls for reconciliation, shocking millions; a famine occurs in Somalia as a result of civil war, prompting the creation of UNOSOM I; Azerbaijani refugees during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, which intensified during 1992; Kabul in ruins during the Afghan Civil War; the Bosnian Parliement burns during the Siege of Sarajevo at the start of the Yugoslav Wars; the beating of Rodney King by police officers prompts widespread rioting in Los Angeles.
Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
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1992 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1992
MCMXCII
Ab urbe condita2745
Armenian calendar1441
ԹՎ ՌՆԽԱ
Assyrian calendar6742
Baháʼí calendar148–149
Balinese saka calendar1913–1914
Bengali calendar1399
Berber calendar2942
British Regnal year40 Eliz. 2 – 41 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar2536
Burmese calendar1354
Byzantine calendar7500–7501
Chinese calendar辛未年 (Metal Goat)
4689 or 4482
    — to —
壬申年 (Water Monkey)
4690 or 4483
Coptic calendar1708–1709
Discordian calendar3158
Ethiopian calendar1984–1985
Hebrew calendar5752–5753
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2048–2049
 - Shaka Samvat1913–1914
 - Kali Yuga5092–5093
Holocene calendar11992
Igbo calendar992–993
Iranian calendar1370–1371
Islamic calendar1412–1413
Japanese calendarHeisei 4
(平成4年)
Javanese calendar1924–1925
Juche calendar81
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4325
Minguo calendarROC 81
民國81年
Nanakshahi calendar524
Thai solar calendar2535
Tibetan calendar阴金羊年
(female Iron-Goat)
2118 or 1737 or 965
    — to —
阳水猴年
(male Water-Monkey)
2119 or 1738 or 966
Unix time694224000 – 725846399

1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1992nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 992nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 92nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1990s decade.

1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations.

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