1992 Pravda (Truth) founded by Lenin and the Bolsheviks in 1912 is taken over by Greek Millionaires.
1992 January 2
A lawsuit filed by the National Treasury Employees Union challenges the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's policy which states that the 1991 Civil Rights Act does not apply to job discrimination lawsuits filed prior to the law's enactment in November 1991.
1992 January 2
The Russian Prime Minister frees prices. The Ruble quickly plummets and prices sky-rocket.
1992 January 17
President George Bush visits the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta to sign a proclamation officially declaring January 20, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday, as a holiday.
1992 January 19
The American Council on Education releases their 10th
annual report confirming the number of minority students attending college
increased during the 1980s. The report shows 33 percent of black, 29 percent of
Hispanic, and 39.4 percent of white high school graduates were attending college
in 1990, up respectively from 21.6 percent, 26.1 percent and 34.4 percent in
1985.
1992 January 20
The seventh commemoration of Martin
Luther King, Jr.'s birthday as a national holiday triggers violence in Denver
between civil-rights supporters and members of the Ku Klux Klan following a Klan
rally. Civil-rights supporters throw bricks and bottles at a bus carrying Klan
members away from the rally.
1992 February 10
Alex Haley, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Roots and The Autobiography of Malcolm X, dies of heart failure in Seattle, Washington .
1992 February 15
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's Benjamin L. Hooks announces in Baltimore his plans to resign from his position as the organization's director. The announcement is made after Hazel Dukes, the national president, and several other prominent board members are denied reelection.
1992 March 23
Friedrich von Hayek, also called Friedrich A. Hayek, in full Friedrich August von Hayek, Austrian-born British economist noted for his criticisms of the Keynesian welfare state and totalitarian socialism dies in Freiburg, Germany. In 1974 he shared the Nobel Prize for Economics with Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal.
1992 March 31
A Federation Treaty is signed by all autonomous republics except Chechnya and Tatarstan.
1992 March 31
In the case of Freeman v. Pitts, the United
States Supreme Court rules unanimously that school districts operating under
court-supervised desegregation orders can slowly be released from court
supervision to local control as they achieve racial equality. Reaction to the
ruling by educators and civil-rights experts is mixed, with general uncertainty
as to how the decision will be applied by district courts reviewing individual
desegregation orders.
1992 April 1
Western nations announce $24 billion aid package for Russia.
1992 April 6
Congress of People's Deputies begins its attack on the government.
1992 April 29
Riots erupt in Los Angeles following the acquittal of four white police officers in the beating of black motorist Rodney King. The suburban Simi Valley jury that acquitted the police
officers had no black members. The videotaped beating was broadcast around the
world and provoked outrage condemning police brutality. With the announcement of
the verdict, looting and violence break out across the South Central section of
Los Angeles. By the end of the first day, 12 people are killed and more than 100
arson fires engulf the area. Mayor Tom Bradley declares a local state of
emergency and Governor Pete Wilson orders the National Guard to assist local
police in controlling the increasing violence. President George Bush orders the
deployment of 1,500 Marines and 3,000 Army troops to Los Angeles. Many of the
shops targeted for looting are those owned by Korean immigrants. Tension
between Los Angeles blacks and Koreans had been rising since the 1991 fatal
shooting of a young black girl, Latasha Harlins, by a Korean grocer. The Bush
administration blames the riots on urban decay, crime and welfare dependency
which it claims grew out of the social-welfare programs passed by Congress in
the 1960s and 1970s.
1992 May
Hans-Dietrich Genscher suddenly resigns as German Foreign Minister and Vice-Chancellor. Many suspect Genscher of having ties to the Stassi, the former East German secret police.
1992 May 6
Rick Perez returns to Germany and makes contacts in Nordhausen, Halle, Paderborn and Wewelsburg.
1992 May 6
Gorbachev makes a speech closing the Communist era at Westminster College.
1992 May 14
Former Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev addresses members of the U.S. Congress, appealing to them to pass a bill aiding the people of the former Soviet Union.
1992 May 15
Russia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgystan sign a treaty on Collective Security.
1992 May 19
Vice President Dan Quayle criticizes the CBS sitcom "Murphy Brown" because the title character chooses to have a child out of wedlock. Quayle says Murphy Brown (Candice Bergen) is a poor example of family values.
1992 May 25
Jay Leno makes his debut as permanent host of NBC's ''Tonight Show,'' replacing late night icon, Johnny Carson.
1992 June
Yeltzin defuses a potentially explosive conflict by compromising with Ukraine on control of the former Soviet Black Sea fleet.
1992 June 4
The U.S. Postal Service announces the results of a nationwide vote on an Elvis Presley stamp, saying more people preferred the "younger Elvis" design.
1992 June 11
The Supreme Court rules that people who commit hate crimes may be sentenced to extra
punishment. Libertarians complain it is a misguided attempt at social engineering and Orwellian "thought crimes."
1992 June 13
Governor Bill Clinton speaks at the Rainbow Coalition convention in Washington and criticizes questionable statements made by rap singer Sister Souljah (Lisa Williamson) in reference to the Los Angeles riots. The Reverend Jesse Jackson, founder of the Rainbow Coalition, says he thinks Clinton's comments were intended to embarrass and provoke him.
