| January 1 | Bush is 1st U.S. President to address Australian Parliament |
| January 1 | Curaeao becomes 1st in Dutch Antilles to have compulsory education |
| January 1 | Europe breaks down trade barriers |
| January 1 | International Space Year begins |
| January 1 | New York City transit fare increases from $1.15 to $1.25 |
| January 2 | Test debut of Shane Warne, vs. India at Sydney |
| January 3 | 32 Cubans defect to the U.S. via helicopter |
| January 3 | Boon completes 11 Test Cricket century, 129* vs. India at Sydney |
| January 4 | 8th largest wrestling crowd (60,000-Tokyo Dome) |
| January 5 | "6 Degrees of Separation" closes at Vivian Beaumont New York City after 496 perf |
| January 5 | "Crucible" closes at Belasco Theater New York City after 32 performances |
| January 5 | "On Borrowed Time" closes at Circle in Sq Theater New York City after 99 performances |
| January 5 | "Peter Pan" closes at Minskoff Theater New York City after 48 performances |
| January 5 | Ravi Shastri scores 206 at SCG before being Warne's 1st crick Test wkt |
| January 6 | New York Yankees sign free agent Danny Tartabul |
| January 6 | Robert Schenkkan's "Kentucky Cycle," premieres in LA |
| January 6 | Sachin Tendulkar completes 148* vs. Australia at the SCG |
| January 6 | Shane Warne takes 1-150 in his 1st Test innings |
| January 7 | AT&T releases video-telephone ($1,499) |
| January 7 | Last day of Test cricket for Imran Khan |
| January 7 | Tom Seaver and Rollie Fingers elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame |
| January 8 | George Bush gets ill and vomits on Japanese prime minister's lap |
| January 10 | 8th Soap Opera Digest Awards |
| January 11 | Algeria's President Chadli announces his resignation |
| January 11 | Paul Simon opens a tour in South Africa |
| January 11 | U.S. female Figure Skating championship won by Kristi Yamaguchi. |
| January 12 | 13th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 27 awards |
| January 12 | Algeria's general elections canceled after strong gains by Islamic Salvation Front in the 1st round |
| January 12 | Last building in Gateway area in Cleveland is demolished |
| January 12 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Christopher Bowman |
| January 13 | Excavation of new ballpark at Gateway (Jacobs Field) begins |
| January 13 | U.S. serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer pleads guilty but insane |
| January 15 | Bulgaria recognizes Macedonia |
| January 15 | Cleaning woman finds intimate photos of Sarah Ferguson with U.S. man |
| January 15 | Supreme Court rules 5-3 that Joseph Doherty isn't entitled to asylum |
| January 16 | "2 Shakespearean Actors" opens at Cort Theater New York City for 29 performances |
| January 17 | Sarah Ferguson attends dinner of Everglades club (club excludes Jews) |
| January 18 | 43rd NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 10-6 at Philadelphia |
| January 18 | 49th Golden Globes |
| January 18 | Actress Joan Chen (Twin Peaks) marries Dr. Peter Hui |
| January 18 | Comedian Pat McCormick injured in a car accident |
| January 18 | NHL All Star Game - Campbell-10, Wales-6 (Brett Hull, MVP) at Philadelphia |
| January 19 | Cerebral Palsy telethon raises 23,500,000 |
| January 19 | "City of Angels" closes at Virginia Theater New York City after 878 performances |
| January 19 | IBM announces a nearly $5B loss for 1992 |
| January 19 | Nature Boy Ric Flair becomes WWF champ at Royal Rumble |
| January 19 | Rowdy Roddy Piper beats Mountie to become WWF Intercontinental Champ |
| January 20 | Australia beat India 2-0 to win the World Series Cup |
| January 20 | Score begins selling international soccer cards |
| January 22 | Sarah Ferguson wears paper bag over her head on airline ride |
| January 22 | Space Shuttle STS-42 (Discovery 15) launches into space |
| January 23 | "Visit" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 45 performances |
| January 25 | 66th Australian Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats M Fernandez (62 63) |
| January 25 | Dan Jansen skates world record 500m in 36.41" |
| January 25 | Hubble space telescope optics finds NGC3862/3C264 |
| January 26 | 80th Australian Mens Tennis: Jim Courier beats S Edberg (63 36 64 62) |
| January 26 | Americans with Disabilities Act went into effect |
| January 26 | "Little Hotel on the Side" opens at Belasco Theater New York City for 41 performances |
| January 26 | Superbowl XXVI: Washington Red Skins beat Buffalo Bills, 37-24 in Minnesota Superbowl MVP: Mark Rypien, Washington, quarterback |
| January 27 | 19th American Music Award: C and C Music Factory, Michael Bolton win |
| January 27 | "Crazy He Calls Me" opens at Walter Kerr Theater New York City for 7 performances |
| January 27 | Jane Fonda undergoes arthroscopic surgery on her right knee |
| January 27 | President candidate Bill Clinton (D) and Genifer Flowers accuse each other of lying over her assertion they had a 12-year affair |
| January 28 | Boon completes twelfth Test century, 135 vs. India at Adelaide |
| January 28 | Stan Hansen beats Jumbo Tsuruta to win All Japan Triple Crown |
| January 30 | Space Shuttle STS-42 (Discovery 15) lands |
| January 31 | Metropolitan Transportation Authority raised tolls on most New York City bridges from $2.50 to $3.00 |
| January 31 | Sportscaster Howard Cosell retires |
| February 1 | Barry Bonds signs baseball's highest single year contract - $4.7 mil |
| February 1 | "Crazy He Calls Me" closes at Walter Kerr Theater New York City after 7 performances |
| February 1 | Denis Potvin's #5 becomes 1st number retired by New York Islanders |
| February 2 | Colleen Walker wins Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic |
| February 2 | Danny Everett runs world record 400m indoor (45.02 sec) |
| February 2 | David Boon's 13 Test Cricket century, 107 vs. India at Perth |
| February 2 | IRS and Willie Nelson settle on $9M tax bill (of $16.7M) |
| February 2 | Kieren Perkins swims world record 1500m freestyle (14:32.40) |
| February 2 | NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 21-15 |
| February 3 | Labor strike at Royal Canadian Mint ends |
| February 3 | Maximum New York State unemployment benefits raised to $300 per week |
| February 5 | Jury selection begins in the Los Angeles cops beating Rodney King case |
| February 5 | Last day of Test Cricket cricket for Dilip Vengsarkar |
| February 5 | Mike Whitney career-best 7-27 at WACA in Test Cricket win vs. India |
| February 6 | "Late Night's 10th Anniversary Show At Radio City Music Hall" on NBC |
| February 7 | Shannon LA Rhea Marketic, 22, (California), crowned 41st Miss USA |
| February 8 | 16th Winter Olympic games opens in Albertville, France |
| February 8 | "I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred peaks at #1 |
| February 8 | Ulysses spacecraft passes Jupiter |
| February 9 | "2 Shakespearean Actors" closes at Cort Theater New York City after 29 performances |
| February 9 | 42nd NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 153-113 at Orlando |
| February 9 | Fastest yodeler-22 tones/15 falsetto in 1 sec by Thomas School of Germ |
| February 9 | Heike Henkel high jumps female indoor world record (2.07m) |
| February 9 | Jani Sievinen swims world record 400m medley (4:07.10) |
| February 9 | NBA All Star Game - West beats East 153-113 |
| February 9 | Shelley Hamlin wins LPGA Phar-Mor Golf Tournament at Hamlin Inverrary |
| February 10 | Bonnie Blair wins 1992 Olympics 1st gold medal for USA |
| February 10 | "Dangerous Women" final episode on WWOR-TV |
| February 10 | Mike Tyson convicted of raping Desiree Washington in Indiana |
| February 11 | F-16 jet crashes at residential district of Hengelo Netherlands (No deaths) |
| February 11 | Michael Johnson runs indoor world record 400m (44.97 sec) |
| February 13 | Jose Canseco repeatedly rams his Porsche into wife Esther's BMW |
| February 13 | "Most Happy Fella" opens at Booth Theater New York City for 229 performances |
| February 13 | West beats East 14 to 9 in Major Soccer League all star game |
| February 14 | Andre Cason runs world record 6 m indoor (6.41 sec) |
| February 14 | Cease fire in Somalia begins |
| February 14 | Kieren John Perkins swims world record 800m freestyle (7:46.60) |
| February 14 | Merlene Ottey runs world record 60m indoor (6.96 sec) |
| February 15 | 100th episode of "Cops" airs on Fox |
| February 15 | Jeffrey Dahmer found sane and guilty of killing 15 boys |
| February 16 | Former silver Goodyear blimps are now painted yellow and blue |
| February 16 | Los Angeles Lakers retire Magic Johnson's #32 uniform |
| February 19 | "Crazy For You" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 1622 performances |
| February 19 | Ken Ludwig's musical "Crazy for You," premieres in New York City |
| February 19 | Peter Collins discovers nova Cygni 1992 |
| February 20 | Orthodox patriarch Shenouda III visits Netherlands |
| February 20 | "Private Lives" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 37 performances |
| February 20 | Ross Perot says he'll run for President on Larry King Show |
| February 21 | Kristi Yamaguchi of U.S. wins Olympic gold medal in women's figure skating |
| February 22 | Barry Diller resigns as CEO of Fox |
| February 22 | Ed McMahon, 69, weds Pamela Hurn, 37 |
| February 22 | Lisa Walters wins LPGA Itoki Hawaiian Ladies Open Golf Tournament |
| February 22 | "Park Your Car in Harvard Yard" closes at Music Box New York City |
| February 22 | Rockers Kurt Corbin (Nirvana) and Courtney Love (Hole), wed |
| February 23 | 16th Winter Olympic games closes in Albertville, France |
| February 23 | Andy Flower scores 115* on ODI debut, Zimbabwe vs. Sri Lanka |
| February 23 | World Cup scoreline Zimbabwe 4-312, Sri Lanka 7-313 |
| February 25 | 34th Grammy Awards: Unforgetable, Marc Cohn wins |
| February 26 | "Search and Destroy" opens at Circle in Sq Theater New York City for 46 performances |
| February 27 | Larry Smith, named 9th Commissioner of the CFL |
| February 27 | Tiger Woods, 16, becomes youngest PGA golfer in 35 years |
| February 29 | Dawn Coe wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open |
| February 29 | Professional Spring Football League begins |
| March 1 | Jenny Thompson swims 100m freestyle world record (1:01.40) |
| March 1 | "Little Hotel on the Side" closes at Belasco New York City after 41 performances |
| March 1 | Nelson Diebel swims 100m freestyle U.S. record (54.48 seconds) |
| March 1 | "Visit" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 45 performances |
| March 2 | Anita Hall swims female world record 200m freestyle (2:25.35) |
| March 3 | Gas explodes in coal mine at Zonguldak Turkey, 100s die |
| March 3 | Mike Bossy's #22 is 2nd # retired by New York Islanders |
| March 5 | Ethic committee votes to reveal congressmen who bounced checks |
| March 6 | Yankee pitcher Pascual Perez suspended for 1 year due to cocaine |
| March 7 | Nicole Stevenson swims world record 200m backstroke (2:06.78) |
| March 8 | 22nd Easter Seal Telethon |
| March 8 | Judy Dickinson wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic |
| March 10 | 6th Soul Train Music Awards: Natalie Cole and Color Me Badd win |
| March 10 | Sandra Seuser/Katrin Schreiter/Annet Hesselbarth/Grit Breuer walk female indoor world record 4x400m (3:27.22) |
| March 13 | 570 die in a Turkish earthquake |
| March 13 | FCC rules companies can own 30 AM and 30 FM stations (formerly 12) |
| March 13 | Martina Navratilova and Judy Nelson settle their galamony suit |
| March 14 | Farm Aid V |
| March 14 | Soviet newspaper "Pravda" suspends publication |
| March 15 | Brandie Burton wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship |
| March 15 | U.N. officially embarks on its largest peacekeeping operation |
| March 16 | Matt Keough, in the dugout, is hit flush in the head by a batted ball |
| March 17 | 18th People's Choice Awards: Garth Brooks and Reba McEntire |
| March 17 | 28 killed in truck bombing of Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina by Islamic Jihad |
| March 17 | De Klerk wins a white only referendum |
| March 17 | "Death and the Maiden" opens at Brooks Atkinson New York City for 159 performances |
| March 17 | Russian manned space craft TM-14, launches into orbit |
| March 18 | "4 Baboons Adoring the Sun" opens at Beaumont Theater New York City for 38 perf |
| March 18 | Donna Summer gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame |
| March 18 | Leona Helmsley sentence to 4 years for tax evasion |
| March 18 | Zimbabwe beat England by 9 runs in World Cup at Albury |
| March 19 | British Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson announce separation |
| March 19 | "Master Builder" opens at Belasco Theater New York City for 45 performances |
| March 20 | Janice Pennington is awarded $1.3M for accident on Price is Right set |
| March 20 | Noriega's wife Felicidad arrested for stealing buttons from dresses |
| March 21 | 2nd WLAF season begins |
| March 21 | Pakistan scores 6-264 to overhaul New Zealand in exciting World Cup semi |
| March 22 | Danielle Ammaccapane wins Standard Register Ping Golf Championship |
| March 22 | England beat South Africa in rain-ruined cricket World Cup semi final |
| March 22 | Joseph A. Molloy elected New York Yankee general partner |
| March 22 | "Private Lives" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 37 performances |
| March 22 | Record producer Lou Adler weds Paige Hannah (Daryl's sister) |
| March 22 | U.S. Air New York to Cleveland crashes on take off at LaGuardia, 27 die |
| March 23 | Florida Marlins begin selling tickets |
| March 24 | 1st Belgium in the space, Dirk Frimout on Atlantis Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) launches into space |
| March 24 | "Jake's Women" opens at Neil Simon Theater New York City for 245 performances |
| March 24 | Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) launches into space |
| March 25 | Imran Khan scores 72 and takes 1-43 off 6 2 overs in last ODI |
| March 25 | Pakistan defeats England by 22 runs to win World Cup |
| March 25 | Russian manned space craft TM-14, lands |
| March 26 | NHL New York Rangers clinch 1st NHL regular season championship in 50 years |
| March 27 | Bruce Springsteen releases "Human Touch" and "Lucky Town" |
| March 28 | 6th American Comedy Award: Cathy Ladman, Judy Watkins, Billy Crystal |
| March 28 | Ann Transon runs female world record 50k (3:35:31) |
| March 28 | PBA National Championship Won by Eric Forkel |
| March 29 | 12th Golden Raspberry Awards: Hudson Hawk wins |
| March 29 | 21st Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Dottie Mochrie |
| March 29 | "Conversations with My Father" opens at Royale New York City for 462 performances |
| March 29 | Herb Gardner's "Conversations With My Father," premieres in New York City |
| March 29 | Ice Dance Championship at Oakland won by Klimova and Ponomarenko (CIS) |
| March 29 | Ice Pairs Championship at Oakland won by Mishuktienok and Dmitriev (CIS) |
| March 29 | Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Oak won by Kristi Yamaguchi (USA) |
| March 29 | Men's Figure Skating Championship in Oakland won by Viktor Petrenko (CIS) |
| March 29 | NCAA Basketball Women's Championship at Kemper Arena, KC |
| March 30 | 64th Academy Awards - "Silence of Lamb," A Hopkins and Jodie Foster win |
| March 30 | CBS TV premieres overnight news program "Up To The Minute" |
| March 30 | Man accidentally backs in A's Jose Canseco's $225,000 Lamborghini |
| March 30 | P J Patterson, resigns as 6th Prime Minister of Jamaica |
| March 30 | WNSR-FM (105.1) changes callsign to WMXV-FM (New York City) |
| March 31 | Delhi beat Tamil Nadu on 1st innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy |
| March 31 | U.N. Security Council voted to ban flights and arms sales to Libya |
| April 1 | 5th Largest wrestling crowd (64,287-Toronto SkyDome) |
| April 1 | Battleship USS Missouri, on which, Japan surrendered, decommissioned |
| April 1 | Last defendant in St. John sex assault case sentenced to 3 years prob |
| April 1 | NFL decides to stay with 17 week sched instead of expanded 18 games |
| April 1 | NHL players begin 1st strike in 75-year history |
| April 1 | Rocker Billy Idol fined $2,000 for hitting a woman |
| April 1 | WA beat NSW by 44 runs to win the Sheffield Shield Final |
| April 1 | World's 7 wealthiest nations agree on $24B aid for former U.S.S.R. |
| April 2 | Edith Cresson, France's 1st female premier, resigns |
| April 2 | "Hamlet" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 45 performances |
| April 2 | John Gotti found guilty in death of Paul Castallanos |
| April 2 | Space Shuttle STS-45, Atlantis 11, lands |
| April 3 | 1st exhibition game at Camden Field-Orioles beat New York Mets |
| April 4 | Game 1 of Mayor Challenge - New York Yankees beat New York Mets 6-4 at Yank Stad |
| April 4 | John Tesh (Entertainment Tonight) marries actress Connie Selleca |
| April 4 | Jury deliberations begin in Noriega case |
| April 4 | Sali Berisha becomes president/Alexander Meksi premier of Albania |
| April 5 | 11th NCAA Women's Basketball Champion: Stanford beats Western Kentucky 78-62 |
| April 5 | 4th Seniors Golf Tradition: Lee Trevino |
| April 5 | Comedian Sam Kenison marries live-in girlfriend Maleeka |
| April 5 | Dana Lofland wins Las Vegas LPGA Golf International |
| April 5 | Game 2 of Mayor Challenge - New York Yankees sweep New York Mets 6-5 at Shea |
| April 5 | Peru's President Alberto Fujimori suspend constitution and dissolved Congress |
| April 5 | "Search and Destroy" closes at Circle in Sq Theater New York City after 46 performances |
| April 5 | Thailand General Suchinda Kraprayoon installed as president |
| April 5 | Wrestlemania VIII, 62,167 at Hoosier Dome, Hulk Hogan DQs Sid Justice |
| April 6 | 1st game at Camden Field, Baltimore Orioles beat Indians 2-0 |
| April 6 | 54th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Duke beats Michigan 71-51 |
| April 6 | Britain Radio Authority licenses Virgin and TV-AM radio licenses |
| April 6 | Microsoft announced Windows 3.1, upgrading Windows 3.0 |
| April 6 | Oriole Park at Camden Yards opens, beating Cleveland 2-0 |
| April 6 | Serbian troops begin siege of Sarajevo |
| April 6 | Voting begins on choice of Elvis postage stamps |
| April 8 | "5 Guys Named Moe" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City for 445 performances |
| April 8 | After 151 years Britain's "Punch Magazine" final issue |
| April 9 | John Majors, (C) elected Prime Minister of England |
| April 9 | Noriega convicted on 8 of 10 drug and racketeering charges |
| April 9 | Record 18 golfers shoot in 60s in Masters round 1 (old record 12) |
| April 9 | "Redwood Curtain" opens at Neiderlander theater on Broadway |
| April 9 | U.S. Federal court finds Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega guilty of drug crimes |
| April 9 | William O. Studeman, becomes deputy director of CIA |
| April 10 | 25 die in a bus bombing in Sri Lanka |
| April 10 | Floriade (Flower Show) opens at Hague, Netherlands |
| April 10 | NHL strike ends after 10 days |
| April 11 | BPAA U.S. Open by Robert Lawrence |
| April 11 | Country singer Lee Greenwood weds Miss Tennessee 1989 (Kimberly Payne) |
| April 11 | Euro-Disney opens near Paris |
| April 11 | Indians set team record for long game lose to Red Sox (19 inn - 6 hours) |
| April 11 | Irish Republican Army bombs London financial district, killing 3 |
| April 12 | 2nd lowest NBA scoring game - Detroit Piston 72, New York Knicks 61 |
| April 12 | 53rd PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Lee Trevino |
| April 12 | 56th Golf Masters Championship: Fred Couples wins, shooting a 275 |
| April 12 | Actress Lisa Bonet files for divorce from singer Lenny Kravitz |
| April 12 | Earthquake rocks Germany |
| April 12 | Lynn Gunther of California threatens to blow herself up in front of U.N. |
| April 12 | Matt Young no-hits Cleveland, but loses 2-1 |
| April 12 | New York Mets lose 1st 3 home games for 1st time since 1962 |
| April 12 | "Streetcar Named Desire" opens at Ethel Barrymore New York City for 137 performances |
| April 12 | Trump Shuttle becomes U.S. Air Shuttle |
| April 13 | "2 Trains Running" opens at Walter Kerr Theater New York City for 160 performances |
| April 13 | 5.5 earthquake hits Netherlands |
| April 13 | American Airlines reduce its 1st-class fares 20%-50% |
| April 13 | Crystal Pepsi begins test marketing in Providence, Denver and Dallas |
| April 13 | Great Chicago Flood - Chicago's underground tunnels flood |
| April 13 | Longest 2 undefeated baseball teams to meet (New York Yankees 5-0 vs Toronto Blue Jays 6-0); Yankees score 3 in top of 9th to win 5-2 |
| April 13 | Lou Conaseca retires as coach of St. John's basketball team |
| April 13 | Nelson Mandela announces he will seek divorce from Winnie |
| April 14 | Court throws out Apple's lawsuit against Microsoft |
| April 14 | "Guys and Dolls" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 1143 performances |
| April 14 | "Les Miserables," opens at Palace Theatre, Manchester |
| April 14 | U.N. imposes embargo against Libya takes effect |
| April 14 | UAW ends 5 month strike against Caterpillar Inc |
| April 15 | Billionaire Leona Helmsly is sent to jail for tax evasion |
| April 15 | Jay Leno's final appearance as permanent guest host of Tonight |
| April 15 | Lincoln Hospital in Bronx loses its accreditation |
| April 15 | New York Islander, Al Arbour, coaches most NHL games (1,438) |
| April 15 | William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley inducted into National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame |
| April 16 | 1st concrete is poured at new ballpark at Gateway (Jacobs Field) |
| April 16 | Afghanistan president Najibullah resigns |
| April 16 | "Metro" opens at Minskoff Theater New York City for 13 performances |
| April 16 | New York Rangers win team record 50th game |
| April 18 | Start of South Africa's 1st Test Cricket since 1970 (v WI Bridgetown) |
| April 18 | Tennis ace Stefan Edberg marries Annette Olsen in Sweden |
| April 19 | "4 Baboons Adoring the Sun" closes at Beaumont New York City after 38 perf |
| April 19 | Balki and Mary Ann wed on "Perfect Strangers" |
| April 19 | Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA Sega Women's Golf Championship |
| April 20 | 100th episode of "Murphy Brown" airs |
| April 20 | 21st Boston Women's Marathon won by Olga Markova of Russia in 2:23:43 |
| April 20 | 96th Boston Marathon won by Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya in 2:08:14 |
| April 20 | All star concert in memory of Freddie Mercury held at Wembley Stadium |
| April 20 | Expo '92 opens in Seville Spain |
| April 20 | Joan Lunden, breaks her left shoulder after being thrown from a horse |
| April 20 | Madonna signs $60-million deal with Time Warner |
| April 21 | "High Rollers" opens at Helen Hayes theater on Broadway |
| April 21 | Mobil Oil tug with 12,000 gallons of oil run aground in Arthur Kill |
| April 22 | 6.0 earthquake in California |
| April 22 | Gas explodes in sewer, kills 200 in Guadalajara Mexico |
| April 22 | "High Rollers Social and Pleasure Club" closes at H Hayes New York City 14 performances |
| April 22 | Holocaust Museum dedicated in Washington D.C. |
| April 22 | Plane crash at Perris Valley Airport California, kills 16 parachutists |
| April 23 | Marion Berry, former mayor of Washington D.C., let out of prison |
| April 23 | McDonald's opens its 1st fast-food restaurant in China |
| April 23 | "Shirnada" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 4 performances |
| April 24 | David Bowie marries model Iman in Switzerland |
| April 24 | George Steinbrenner drops his suits against baseball |
| April 24 | "Man of La Mancha" opens at Marquis Theater New York City for 108 performances |
| April 24 | Vinson Pike fined 1000 pounds for distributing obscene computer pictures |
| April 25 | Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Marc McDowell |
| April 25 | "Shimada" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 4 performances |
| April 26 | Alex Haley, (Roots), wins 1992 Ellis Island Award, posthumously |
| April 26 | "Grand Hotel" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 1,018 performances |
| April 26 | "Growing Pains," final episode on ABC TV |
| April 26 | "Jelly's Last Jam" opens at Virginia Theater New York City for 569 performances |
| April 26 | Maggie Will wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic |
| April 26 | "Master Builder" closes at Belasco Theater New York City after 45 performances |
| April 26 | "Metro" closes at Minskoff Theater New York City after 13 performances |
| April 26 | Ozzie Smith steals his 500th base |
| April 26 | "Who's The Boss," final episode after 8 years on ABC TV |
| April 27 | New York Jets finish perfect 5-0 pre-season for 1st time |
| April 27 | New York Mets trade David Cone to Toronto Blue Jays for Jeff Kent |
| April 27 | "Small Family Business" opens at Music Box Theater New York City for 48 performances |
| April 28 | Brewers beat Blue Jays 22-2 with AL record 31 hits in 9 innings |
| April 28 | Italian President Francesco Cossiga formally resigns |
| April 29 | 27th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks |
| April 29 | Country singer Doug Stone, 35, undergoes quadruple bypass surgery |
| April 29 | "Falsettos" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 487 performances |
| April 29 | Jury acquits Los Angeles police officers of beating Rodney King, riots begin |
| April 29 | Sheena Easton collapses on stage while performing in "Man of LaMancha" |
| April 29 | Voting ends on choice of Elvis stamps |
| April 30 | 208th and final episode of Cosby Show on NBC-TV |
| May 1 | Eric Houston kills 4 in a California HS where he failed history 4 years prior |
| May 1 | Los Angeles Dodgers postpone 3 games due to racial riots due to Rodney King |
| May 1 | New York Rangers wins their 1st ever 7th game of a playoff (vs New Jersey Devils) |
| May 1 | Rickey Henderson steals his 1,000th base |
| May 2 | 118th Kentucky Derby: Pat Day aboard Lil E Tee wins in 2:03 |
| May 2 | "High Rollers Social and Pleasure Club" opens at H Hayes New York City 14 performances |
| May 2 | Yugoslav Army seize Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic |
| May 3 | Balt's Gregg Olson, 25, is youngest to record 100 saves |
| May 3 | Beverly Hills 90210 Gabrielle Carteris marries Charles Isaacs |
| May 3 | Danielle Ammaccapane wins LPGA Centel Golf Classic |
| May 3 | New York Met Eddie Murray is 24th to hit 400 home runs |
| May 3 | Ohio Glory wins 1st WLAF game (after 6 loses), beat Frankfurt 20-17 |
| May 3 | Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Centel Senior Golf Challenge |
| May 5 | Country singer Tammy Wynette hospitalized with bile duct infection |
| May 6 | New York Met Anthony Young begins losing streak of at least 26 games |
| May 6 | Werder Bremen wins 32nd Europe Cup II |
| May 7 | 5 New York City cops arrested in Hauppauge Long Island for selling cocaine |
| May 7 | Constitutional amendment barring mid-term congressional raises passes |
| May 7 | Jockey Angel Cordero retires after winning over 7,000 horse races |
| May 7 | U.S. space shuttle STS-49 launched (maiden voyage of Endeavour) |
| May 9 | America Cup finals begin in San Diego |
| May 9 | Final episode of "Golden Girls" airs on NBC-TV |
| May 9 | Michelle McLean, 19, of Namibia, crowned 41st Miss Universe |
| May 10 | Bible Lands Museum opens in Jerusalem, Israel |
| May 10 | "Hamlet" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 45 performances |
| May 10 | Jennifer Wyatt wins LPGA Crestar-Fresh Farm Golf Classic |
| May 12 | 1st Belgian woman, Ingrid Baeyens, to ascend Mount Everest |
| May 13 | 3 astronauts simultaneous walked in space for the 1st time |
| May 13 | Ajax wins 21st UEFA Cup |
| May 13 | Concrete foundation for ballpark at Gateway (Jacobs Field) is poured |
| May 13 | Final episode of "Night Court" airs on NBC-TV |
| May 13 | Frank Stallone beats Geraldo Rivera in boxing on Howard Stern Show |
| May 14 | WIBC Bowling Queens won by Cindy Coburn-Carroll |
| May 15 | Colombo '92 opens in Genoa Italy |
| May 15 | New York department store chain Alexanders announces closing of all 11 stores |
| May 15 | Part of Cruger Avenue in Bronx renamed Regis Philbin Avenue |
| May 16 | 118th Preakness: Chris McCarron aboard Pine Bluff wins in 1:55.6 |
| May 16 | Polls show Perot, Bush and Clinton could be in a deadlock |
| May 16 | "Smells Like Nirvana," by Weird Al Yankovic hits #35 |
| May 16 | U.S. space shuttle STS-49 lands (maiden voyage of Endeavour) |
| May 17 | 38th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Betsy King |
| May 17 | Expos Gary Carter is 3rd to catch 2,000 games (joins Boone and Fisk) |
| May 18 | Supreme Court rules states could not force mentally unstable criminal defendants to take anti-psychotic drugs |
| May 19 | 27th Amendment ratified, prohibits Congress from raising its salary |
| May 19 | Amy Fisher shoots Mary Jo Buttafuoco in Massapequa LI |
| May 19 | Dan Quayle sites Murphy Brown as a poor example of family values |
| May 19 | Englishman Dave Gauder, 224 lbs, pulls 196 ton jumbo jet, 3 inches |
| May 19 | Ric Flair wins NWA wrestling title |
| May 20 | FC Barcelona wins 373 Europe Cup 1 at London |
| May 20 | India launches its 1st satellite independently |
| May 20 | Rap singer raps 597 syllables in under 60 seconds |
| May 21 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| May 21 | New Jersey senate overrides Governor Florio's veto and lowers sales tax to 6% |
| May 22 | California Angels, are involved in a bus crash, in New Jersey |
| May 22 | India launches its Agni rocket |
| May 22 | Johnny Carson's final appearance as host of Tonight Show |
| May 23 | New York Yankees play in their 4th straight extra inning game |
| May 23 | President Bush orders Coast Guard to intercept boats with Haitian refugees |
| May 24 | Al Unser, Jr. wins Indy 500 |
| May 24 | Colleen Walker wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic |
| May 24 | Despite trailing 7-1, New York Yankees tie Milwaukee Brewers and then score 1 in 9th to avoid 5th straight extra inning game |
| May 24 | Pat Bradley wins J C Penney/LPGA Skins Game Golf Tournament |
| May 25 | Jay Leno becomes permanent host of "Tonight Show" |
| May 25 | New York Yankees score 9 runs before 1st out in 8th inn, beat Brewers 13-7 |
| May 25 | Oscar Luigi Scalfaro elected president of Italy |
| May 26 | Carlos Martinez hits a ball off Jose Canseco's head for a home run |
| May 26 | Weird Al Yankovic begins his Off The Deep End tour |
| May 28 | 65th National Spelling Bee: Amanda Goad wins spelling lyceum |
| May 29 | New York Mets score in 9th to end home shut-out streak at 3 games |
| May 29 | White Sox Tim Raines swipes his 700th career base |
| May 30 | Minnesota Twin Bert Blyleven is 2nd to win as teenager and 40 year old |
| May 30 | New York Lotto pays $30 million to one winner (#s are 12-15-30-33-40-48) |
| May 30 | New York Yankee Scott Sanderson becomes 9th to beat all 26 teams |
| May 30 | Paul Simon weds Edie Brickell |
| May 30 | U.N. votes for sanctions against Serb-led Yugoslavia to halt fighting |
| May 31 | 46th Tony Awards: Dancing at Lughnasa and Crazy For You win |
| May 31 | 5th Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $1,060,000 |
| May 31 | Barb Mucha wins LPGA Oldsmobile Golf Classic |
| June 1 | America West Arena opens in Phoenix |
| June 1 | Stanley Cup: Pittsburgh Penguins sweep Chicago Blackhawks in 4 games |
| June 2 | Former NFL New York Giant Coach Bill Parcells undergoes open heart surgery |
| June 2 | Wilson Phillips release their 2nd album "Shadows and Light" |
| June 3 | Joan Lunden ordered to pay her ex-husband $18,000 a month support |
| June 3 | World's largest environmental summit opens, Rio De Janeiro Brazil |
| June 4 | San Jose voters reject Giants plan to build a new stadium |
| June 4 | USPO announces young Elvis beats old Elvis stamp |
| June 6 | 124th Belmont: Eddie Delahoussaye aboard AP Indy wins in 2:26 |
| June 6 | 62nd French Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats Steffi Graf (62 36 10-8) |
| June 6 | Ben Vereen suffers injuries when hit by a car |
| June 6 | New York Met Eddie Murray sets RBI record by a switch hitter |
| June 6 | WLAF World Bowl 2: Sacramento beats Orlando 21-17, Montreal |
| June 7 | 62nd French Mens Tennis: Jim Courier beats Petr Korda (75 62 61) |
| June 7 | Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship |
| June 7 | "Small Family Business" closes at Music Box Theater New York City after 48 performances |
| June 8 | 26th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson and Garth Brooks |
| June 8 | New York Yankee pitcher Steve Howe is banned from baseball for 7th time |
| June 8 | Thomas Klestil succeeds Waldheim as president of Austria |
| June 10 | Intelsat K launched |
| June 10 | "Price" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 47 performances |
| June 11 | Owners approve sale of Seattle Mariners to a Japanese group |
| June 11 | Tracy Austin, 29, is youngest inductee of International Tennis Hall of Fame |
| June 11 | U.S. Olympic baseball team plays 1st exhibtion game, beat Venez 20-0 |
| June 12 | "Batman Returns" is released in USA |
| June 14 | 10th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Dave Stockton |
| June 14 | 46th NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat Port Trailblazers, 4 games to 2 |
| June 14 | Anne-Marie Palli wins ShopRite LPGA Golf Classic |
| June 14 | Mona Van Duyn is named 1st female U.S. poet laureate |
| June 14 | Ozzie Smith breaks Roy McMillan's NL mark by taking part in his 1,305th career double play |
| June 15 | 1st Berlin Air Show in 60 years |
| June 15 | Director Frank Perry (Mommie Dearest) marries Virginia Bush Ford |
| June 15 | During spelling bee, Quayle misspells potato, as potatoe |
| June 15 | Erie Sailors (Florida Marlin farm team) 1st game beat Jamestown 6-5 in 13 |
| June 15 | Ghana Airways inaugurates flights to JFK Airport, New York City |
| June 15 | Jeff Reardon breaks Rollie Fingers' save record with #342 |
| June 16 | Colorado Rockies 1st minor league team's (Bend Oregon in Class A) game |
| June 16 | Great British postage stamp 350 year battle near Edgehill |
| June 16 | Jeff King is 5th to be thrown out twice trying to steal in an inning |
| June 16 | Longest salami is 68'9 and 25 circumference, weighed 1,492lbs/5oz in Flekkefjord, Norway |
| June 16 | Red Sox Mark Reardon sets record of 342 saves (vs Yankees 1-0) |
| June 17 | Connecticut Governor Lowell Weicker and WFAN DJ Don Imus change places for 1 day |
| June 17 | Philadelphia 76ers trade Charles Barkley to Phoenix Suns |
| June 17 | Slaughtering by Inkhata-followers at Boipatong, South Africa, kills 42 |
| June 18 | Actor Jameson Parker weds actress Darleen Carr |
| June 18 | Ottawa Senators make goalie Peter Sidorkiewicz their 1st draft |
| June 18 | Tampa Bay Lightning make goalie Wendell Young their 1st draft |
| June 19 | "Batman Returns" opens |
| June 19 | Evander Holyfield beats Larry Holmes in 12 for heavywgt boxing title |
| June 19 | Guardian Angel Curtis Sliwa is shot twice in New York City |
| June 19 | Inkhata-blood bath in Boipatong South Africa |
| June 19 | New York Yankees 1st game in Baltimore Oriole's Camden Yards |
| June 20 | Kelly Saunders is 1st female baseball announcer for the Baltimore Orioles |
| June 21 | 92nd U.S. Golf Open: Tom Kite shoots a 285 at Pebble Beach GL California |
| June 21 | Actor Michael Chiklis (Commish) marries Michelle Epstein |
| June 21 | Actress Marina Sirtis, Star Trek NG, marries rocker Michael Lamper |
| June 21 | Danielle Ammaccapan wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
| June 21 | Last day of test cricket for Ian Botham and Allan Lamb |
| June 22 | 2 skeletons excavated in Yekaterinburg ID'ed as Czar Nicholas II and wife |
| June 22 | Supreme Court rules hate crime laws violated free-speech rights |
| June 23 | Emmy 19th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 13th time |
| June 23 | Rabin wins Israeli parliamentary election |
| June 23 | "Tin Bigha Day" protest in India of corridor opening to Bangladesh |
| June 24 | Billy Joel, gets an honorary diploma from Hicksville High School at 43 |
| June 24 | Commissioner Fay Vincent permanently bans Steve Howe from baseball |
| June 24 | Eddie Antar, CEO (Crazy Eddies), $74 m stock fraud caught in Israel |
| June 24 | John Gotti begins life sentence in jail |
| June 25 | Alexanders Department store closes all 11 stores |
| June 25 | "Les Miserables," opens at Vinorhady Theatre, Prague |
| June 25 | STS-50 launches (Columbia) |
| June 26 | India leases Tin Bigha corridor to Bangladesh |
| June 26 | New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority votes to ban cigarette ads on Jan 1, 1993 |
| June 26 | Supreme Court rules fund soliciting can be banned at airports |
| June 27 | 193rd ranked Andrei Olhovsky defeats #1 seed Jim Courier at Wimbledon |
| June 27 | Dan O'Brien fails on pole vault and eliminated from Olympics decathlon |
| June 27 | Daryl Gates retires as Los Angeles police chief |
| June 27 | Denmark upsets German 2-0, to win European Soccer championship |
| June 28 | 2 earthquakes, including 3rd strongest in U.S. (7.4) rock California |
| June 28 | Burharnuddin Rabbani becomes president of Afghanistan |
| June 28 | "Chinese Coffee" opens at Circle in Sq Theater New York City for 18 performances |
| June 28 | Italian government of Amato forms |
| June 28 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Rochester Golf International |
| June 28 | President Bush's daughter Dorothy marries Bobby Koch |
| June 28 | U.S. Dream Team beats Cuba in 1st exhibition basketball game, 133-57 |
| June 29 | 2 earthquakes including 7.4 hits southern California |
| June 29 | A's Dennis Eckersley sets record of 26th straight save of season |
| June 29 | NHL decides Eric Lindross goes to Flyers instead of Rangers |
| June 29 | "Salome" opens at Circle in Sq Theater New York City for 9 performances |
| June 30 | 1st pay bathrooms in U.S. open: 25 cents, New York City |
| June 30 | Actress Cecil Hoffman (Zoe-LA Law) marries Paul Slye |
| June 30 | Fidel Ramos installed as president of Philippines |
| June 30 | Total solar eclipse in Uruguay (5m21s) |
| July 1 | 6.6 earthquake in Big Bear Valley of Los Angeles |
| July 1 | Ali Kafi becomes president of Algeria |
| July 1 | Fox broadcasting adds Wednesday night TV programming |
| July 2 | Braniff Airlines goes out of business |
| July 3 | Gary Dell'Abate (Howard Stern Show) marries Mary |
| July 3 | Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy marries Victoria Reggie (38) |
| July 4 | 99th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Monica Seles (62 61) |
| July 4 | John Phillips, rocker (Mamas and Papas), undergoes a liver transplant |
| July 4 | U.S. actress Bobbie Eakes marries author David Stone |
| July 5 | 106th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Agassi beats Ivanisevic (67 64 64 16 64) |
| July 5 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic |
| July 5 | Sixto Duran Ballen elected president of Ecuador |
| July 6 | Fay Vincent realigns NL, putting Cubs, Cards and Rockies in West and Cards, Braves and Marlins in East |
| July 8 | Florida Marlins unveil their uniform |
| July 8 | Thomas Klestil installed as president of Austria |
| July 9 | Kim Basinger gets 1,959th star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame |
| July 9 | Space Shuttle STS-50 (Columbia 13) lands |
| July 10 | John Ellis becomes CEO of Seattle Mariners |
| July 10 | Spaceship Giotto, Halley 1986, approaches comet Grigg-Skjellerup |
| July 10 | SuriPop VII, Suriname Popular Song Festival |
| July 10 | U.S. Major Soccer League folds after 14 seasons |
| July 11 | President candidate Ross Perot at NAACP speech calls them "you people" |
| July 12 | 13th U.S. Seniors Golf Open: Larry Laoretti |
| July 12 | Axl Rose arrested on riot charges in St. Louis of Jul 2, 1991 concert |
| July 12 | Betsy King wins LPGA Phar-Mor in Youngstown Golf Tournament |
| July 14 | 63rd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 13-6 at Jack Murphy Stadium, SD |
| July 14 | Actress Nell Carter undergoes brain surgery |
| July 14 | All star MVP: Ken Griffey, Jr., Seattle Mariners |
| July 15 | Pope John Paul II hospitalized for 3 weeks to have tumor removed |
| July 17 | Slovak parliament asks for self rule |
| July 18 | Film critic Roger Ebert marries Chaz Hammel-Smith |
| July 18 | Helen Windsor (daughter of English prince Edward) weds Timothy Taylor |
| July 18 | Sharon Belden, of Fla, 25, crowned Miss World USA |
| July 18 | Singers Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown marry |
| July 19 | 30th Tennis Fed Cup: Germany beats Spain in Frankfurt Germany (2-1) |
| July 19 | Ballet dancer Peter Martins charged with beating his wife |
| July 19 | Ebony P. Warren, crowned 24th Miss Black America |
| July 19 | Juli Inkster wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic |
| July 19 | New York City Ballet star Peter Martins, arrested for beating his wife |
| July 19 | "Price" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 47 performances |
| July 20 | 121st British Golf Open: Nick Faldo shoots a 272 at Muirfield Gullane |
| July 20 | Round World Air Race begins in Paris |
| July 22 | Colombia drug baron Pablo Escobar escapes prison |
| July 22 | Soyuz TM-15 launches |
| July 23 | Emperor Haile Selassie, Ras Tafari Makonnen, of Ethiopia's, funeral |
| July 24 | Faye Vincent reinstates Yankee owner George Steinbrenner, eff 3/1/93 |
| July 24 | Vickers Viscount crashes, 70 die |
| July 25 | 25th Olympic Summer games opens in Barcelona, Spain |
| July 25 | Army refused to overturn 127 year old conviction against Dr. Mudd |
| July 26 | 47th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Patty Sheehan |
| July 26 | England honors her dead soldiers in the Falkland Is war |
| July 26 | Kiss Guitarist Paul Stanley weds Pamela Bowen |
| July 26 | "Man of La Mancha" closes at Marquis Theater New York City after 108 performances |
| July 26 | Nolan Ryan strikes out his 100th batter for 23rd consecutive seasons |
| July 26 | Rocker Paul Stanley (Kiss) weds model Pamela Bowen |
| July 27 | Astros begins 26-game road trip to make room for Rep National Convention |
| July 27 | Dimitri Lepikov, Vladimir Pychenko, Veniamin Taianovitch and Evgueni |
| July 27 | Sadovyi swim world record 4x200m freestyle (7:11.95) |
| July 28 | Ground breaking of Florida Marlins 7,500 seat spring training stadium |
| July 29 | "Chinese Coffee" closes at Circle in Sq Theater New York City after 18 performances |
| July 29 | Evgueni Sadovyi swims world record/OR 400m freestyle (3:45.00) |
| July 29 | Ray Sharkey, actor, Wiseguys, arrested for narcotic possession |
| July 30 | Lin Li swims female world record/OR 200m medley (2:11.65) |
| July 31 | Jeff Rouse swims world record/OR 100m backstroke (53.86 sec) |
| July 31 | Kieren John Perkins swims world record/OR 1500m free style (14:43.4) |
| July 31 | Tamas Darnyi swims world record/Olympics 200m backstroke (1:59.36) |
| July 31 | Thai Airbus crashes into mountain at Kathmandu, 113 die |
| July 31 | Yang Wenyi swims world record/OR 50m freestyle (24.79 sec) |
| August 1 | NBC's "Saturday Today" premieres |
| August 1 | "Salome" closes at Circle in Sq Theater New York City after 9 performances |
| August 1 | USA/U.S.S.R. Around World Air Race begins at Santa Monica |
| August 2 | "Death and the Maiden" closes at Brooks Atkinson New York City after 159 performances |
| August 2 | Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA Welch's Golf Classic |
| August 2 | Kevin Bacon marries Kyra Sedgwick |
| August 2 | Tom Seaver, R Fingers, Hal Newhouser, and B McGowan enter Hall of Fame |
| August 3 | Dodgers win 3,000th game since moving to Los Angeles (3,000-2,531) |
| August 3 | Paramount inaugurates New York Street on TV/movie lot |
| August 5 | 4 cops in Rodney King beating case indicted on civil rights charge |
| August 6 | Harold Wilson's academy award is auctioned for $60,500 |
| August 7 | Cleveland Indians turn a triple play |
| August 7 | Tampa Bay group purchases San Francisco Giants |
| August 8 | Actress Barbara Hershey weds artist Stephen Douglas |
| August 8 | Lou Whitaker hits his 200th career home run |
| August 9 | 25th Olympic Summer games closes in Barcelona, Spain |
| August 9 | Florence Descampe wins McCall's LPGA Golf Classic at Stratton Mt. |
| August 9 | Last day of Test Cricket for David Gower |
| August 9 | Record temperature in Berlin-Dahlem 99.3 degrees F (37.4 degrees C) |
| August 9 | "Streetcar Named Desire" closes at Ethel Barrymore New York City after 137 perf |
| August 10 | Satellite TOPEX/Poseidon launched |
| August 10 | Soyuz TM-15 lands |
| August 11 | Oakland A's rip Jose Canseco for leaving stadium before end of game |
| August 15 | Actress Susan Anton marries actor Jeff Lester |
| August 15 | Colombo '92 closes in Genoa, Italy |
| August 16 | 20th du Maurier Golf Classic: Sherri Steinhaur |
| August 16 | 74th PGA Championship: Nick Price shoots a 278 at Bellerive St. Louis |
| August 16 | Moses Kiptanui runs world record 3k (7:28.96) |
| August 17 | Kevin Gross of Dodgers tosses only 9-inning no-hitter of season, a 2-0 |
| August 18 | "Real Inspector Hound" opens at Criterion New York City for 61 performances |
| August 19 | Romesh Kaluwitharana scores 132 on Test Cricket debut (SL vs. Australia) |
| August 19 | Sri Lanka make their highest cricket score ever 8-547 vs. Australia |
| August 20 | England get 7-363 in 55 overs vs Pakistan, then world ODI record |
| August 20 | Rocker Sting weds Trudie Styler |
| August 22 | Matthews and Warne spin Australia to a famous win vs. Sri Lanka |
| August 23 | Dennis Eckersley, who previously set record for most consecutive saves (40), is 1st pitcher to record 40 saves in 4 different seasons |
| August 23 | Kris Tschetter wins LPGA Northgate Computer Golf Classic |
| August 24 | 1st structural steel beams are erected at Gateway (Jacobs Field) |
| August 24 | Cleveland Browns suffer their worst preseason loss, 56-3, to Vikings |
| August 24 | Hurricane Andrew hits South Florida; 35 die |
| August 24 | Screw magazine superimposed a gunsight over a picture of Larry Flint |
| August 25 | Jamie Solinger, of Iowa, crowned 10th Miss Teen USA |
| August 26 | "Anna Karenina" opens at Circle in Sq Theater New York City for 46 performances |
| August 27 | CFL revokes BC Lions franchise |
| August 27 | Mets trade David Cone to Toronto for Jeff Kent and Ryan Thompson |
| August 28 | Test Cricket debut of Muttiah Muralitharan, vs Australia at Colombo |
| August 29 | Brave's Charlie Leibrandt 1,000th strikeout and decides to keep the ball He rolls it to the dugout, allows Ricky Jordan to take 2nd on error |
| August 29 | Largest wrestling crowd out side of U.S. (75,000) at Wembley Stadium |
| August 29 | Randy Myers blows his 6th save of the season and it marks the 5th time he's blown a potential win for Greg Harris |
| August 30 | "2 Trains Running" closes at Walter Kerr Theater New York City after 160 performances |
| August 30 | 92nd U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Justin Leonard |
| August 30 | David Lewett and Jane Luu discovers comet: "1992 QB1" 64 mil km from Sun |
| August 30 | Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA Sun-Times Golf Challenge |
| August 30 | "Most Happy Fella" closes at Booth Theater New York City after 229 performances |
| August 31 | 44th Emmy Awards: Northern Exposure, Christopher Lloyd and Dana Delane |
| August 31 | Dynamite explosion in Philipines mine; 500 die |
| August 31 | Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Cleveland, Ohio on WNCX 98.5 FM |
| September 1 | New York City police commisioner Brown resigns |
| September 1 | Tommy Smothers undergoes arthroscopic surgery |
| September 2 | Nicaragua struck by earthquake/floodings; 118 die |
| September 2 | U.S. dollar valued at 156.50 guilder (record) |
| September 3 | Jerry Lewis' 27th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $45,759,368 |
| September 4 | "Scared Silent" is 1st non news program to be seen on 3 networks simultaneously. (CBS, NBC and PBS), about child abuse hosted by Oprah |
| September 5 | Andrew "Dice" Clay marries his longtime live-in lover Trinie |
| September 5 | Dan O'Brien sets world record decathlon (8891 pts) |
| September 6 | Noureddine Morceli runs world record 1500m (3:28.86) |
| September 7 | Army of Ciskei homeland kills 28 ANC demonstrators |
| September 7 | Baseball commissioner Faye Vincent resigns |
| September 7 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
| September 8 | Danny Tartabull has 9 RBIs as Yankees beat Orioles 16-4 |
| September 8 | Howard Stern Radio Show begins broadcasting in Dallas, Texas on KGEL-FM 97.1 |
| September 9 | 1st time Baltimore Orioles draw 3 million fans at home |
| September 9 | 9th MTV Awards: Howard Stern appears as Fartman |
| September 9 | Robin Yount, is 17th to get 3,000 hits |
| September 10 | Bud Selig becomes interm commissioner of baseball |
| September 10 | Lucy in Peanuts comics raises her Pyschiatric Help from 5 cents to 47 cents |
| September 11 | Hurricane Iniki hits Kauai Hawaii; 3 die and 8,000 injured |
| September 12 | 106th U.S. Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats A Sanchez Vicario (63 63) |
| September 12 | Hurricane Inuki pounds Hawaii |
| September 12 | Stefan Edberg beats Michael Chang in what is believed to be the longest match in U.S. Open history (5hr 26min) |
| September 12 | STS-47 (Endeavour 2) launches |
| September 13 | 112th U.S. Mens Tennis: Stefan Edberg beats Pete Sampras (36 64 76 62) |
| September 13 | Nancy Lopez wins Ping-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship |
| September 13 | New York Giants trailing Dallas Cowboys 34-0 in 3rd, lose 34-28 |
| September 13 | Steffan Edberg beats Pete Sampress to win U.S. Open |
| September 14 | 1st subway car completed to be exported from U.S. (to Taiwan) |
| September 15 | Ted Weiss, despite dying on 14th, wins congressional New York City seat |
| September 16 | 900 die in flood in Pakistan |
| September 16 | FCC votes to allow competition for local phone service |
| September 16 | "Les Miserables," opens at Nuevo Apolo, Madrid |
| September 16 | Vanna White suffers a miscarriage |
| September 17 | House votes 280 to 128 to give FCC control of cable TV rates |
| September 17 | NFL decides to suspend World League Football |
| September 19 | Barry Bonds joins Willie Mays, Howard Johnson and Ron Gant as having (2) 30-home run/30-steal seasons |
| September 19 | Sergei Boebka pole vaults world record (6.13m) |
| September 19 | U.N. Security Council votes 12-0 (3 abstentions) to dump Yugoslavia |
| September 20 | Colleen Walker wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic |
| September 20 | Frances votes in favor of Maastricht treaty |
| September 20 | Leanza Cornett (Florida), 21, crowned 66th Miss America 1993 |
| September 20 | Phils' Mickey Moradini makes an unassisted triple play |
| September 20 | Space shuttle STS-47 (Endeavour 2) lands |
| September 22 | Heavy storm in South France, 34 die |
| September 23 | 1st female to play in a NHL exhibition game (Manon Rheaume, goalie) for Tampa Bay Lightning - gives up 2 goals on 9 attempts in 1 period |
| September 23 | Bill Comrie purchases BC Lions from CFL |
| September 23 | Bradlees announces it will take over Alexander's department stores in New York City |
| September 23 | Mud storm kills 30 in South France |
| September 24 | John Jaha ties record of 11 teammates to steal 10 bases (Brewers) |
| September 24 | Scott Stevens is named 5th Captain in New Jersey Devils history |
| September 24 | Toronto's Dave Winfield, 40, is oldest player to reach 100-RBI |
| September 25 | "Barry Manilow's Showstoppers" opens at Paramount New York City |
| September 25 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| September 25 | Gregory Kingsley, 12, wins right to divorce his parents and live with his foster parents, he takes name Shawn Russ |
| September 25 | Jimmy Connors beats Martina Navratilova |
| September 25 | Opening Main-Donau canal (North Sea-Black Sea) |
| September 25 | Sparky Anderson ties Hughie Jennings as Detroit's winningest manager |
| September 25 | U.S. Mars Observer launched from Space shuttle |
| September 26 | 1st time a positional player pitches for New York Mets, Phil Pecota, in 19-2 lose to Pirates |
| September 26 | Jimmy Connors beats Martina Navratilova, 7-5, 6-3 |
| September 26 | Nigerian Hercules C-130 crashes at Lagos, 163 die |
| September 26 | Roseanne Barr Arnold gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame |
| September 26 | Tsuruhiko Kiuchi discovers comet Swift-Tuttle |
| September 27 | ASPCA stops Santeria ceremony in Bronx halts sacrifice of 42 animals |
| September 27 | Los Angeles Dodgers for 1st time in history clinch last place |
| September 27 | Military transport plane crashes in Lagos, Nigeria killing 163 |
| September 27 | Nancy Scranton wins Los Coyotes LPGA Golf Classic |
| September 27 | Pittsburgh Pirates win their 3rd straight NL East title |
| September 27 | Seattle's Randy Johnson ties AL record for lefties with 18 strike outs |
| September 28 | "Barry Manilow's Showstoppers" closes at Paramount Theater New York City |
| September 28 | "Dog City," cartoon debuts on Fox-TV |
| September 28 | Oakland A's win AL West title |
| September 28 | Pakistani Airbus A-300 crashes into mountain at Kathmandu, 167 dies |
| September 29 | Atlanta Braves wins 2nd straight NL West title |
| September 29 | Parliament suspends president Fernando Collor |
| September 30 | 26th Country Music Association Award: Garth Brooks wins |
| September 30 | Kansas City Royal George Brett gets 4 hits to become 18th to get 3,000 hits |
| September 30 | Mariel Hemmingway appears nude on TV show Civil Wars |
| October 1 | Cartoon Cable Network premieres |
| October 1 | Greater Pittsburgh International Airport opens |
| October 1 | "Oba Oba '93" opens at Marquis Theater New York City for 22 performances |
| October 1 | Ross Perot re-enters presidental race |
| October 2 | Vice President Itamar Franco becomes President of Brazil |
| October 3 | Atlanta Braves win franchise record 98th game (old record 95 in 1957) |
| October 3 | LeVar Burton weds Stephanie Cozart |
| October 3 | Madonna premieres her "Erotica" video on MTV |
| October 3 | Sinead O'Connor rips up a picture of Pope John Paul II on SNL |
| October 3 | Toronto Blue Jays win AL East title |
| October 4 | 1st time AL East and West champs have same record (96-66)-Tor and Oak |
| October 4 | 2nd Solheim Cup: Europe beats U.S., 11 -6 at Dalmahoy CC Scotland |
| October 4 | "Anna Karenina" closes at Circle in Sq Theater New York City after 46 performances |
| October 4 | El Al cargo plane crashes at Amsterdam Bijlmer, 43 die |
| October 4 | Miami Dolphen Louis Oliver returns record tying interception 103 yards |
| October 4 | "Real Inspector Hound" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 61 performances |
| October 5 | 1st overturn of a George Bush veto (cable bill) |
| October 5 | El Al cargo jet crashes into apartment complex in Amsterdam (250 die) |
| October 5 | New York senator Alphonse D'Mato fillerbusters for 15 hours 20 minutes |
| October 5 | U.S. Air goes on strike |
| October 7 | Tampa Bay Lightning become 1st NHL expansion team to win opener (7-2) |
| October 8 | Nobel Prize for literature is given to West Indies poet Derek Walcott |
| October 8 | Ottawa Sentors 1st NHL game |
| October 8 | Pioneer Venus Orbiter (1st Venus orbiter-1978), crashes into Venus |
| October 9 | Great meteorite seen from Kentucky to New York |
| October 10 | Actress Ally Sheedy weds actor David Lansbury |
| October 10 | Actress Heather Thomas weds entertainment lawyer Skip Brittenham |
| October 10 | Floriade (Flower Show) closes at Hague, Netherlands |
| October 11 | 1st 3-way presidential debate (Bush-Clinton-Perot) |
| October 11 | Deion Sanders, plays for Atlanta Falcons (NFL) and Braves (Baseball) |
| October 11 | Toronto down 6-1 in 7th beats A's 7-6 in 11th in AL playoff |
| October 12 | 5.8 earthquake at Cairo (at least 510 die) |
| October 12 | Arecibo radio telescope begins Microwave search for occupied planets |
| October 12 | Brett "Hitman" Hart beats Ric Flair for WWF Heavyweight title |
| October 12 | Expo '92 closes in Seville Spain |
| October 12 | Howard Stern radio show premieres in Albany, New York on WQBK 103.5 and 103.9 FM |
| October 12 | Microwave Observing Project begins (seeking alien life) |
| October 12 | Washington Redskin Art Monk sets NFL record with 820th reception |
| October 14 | Atlanta Braves beat Pittsburgh Pirates in 7 games for NL pennant |
| October 14 | Toronto Blue Jays beats Oakland A's to win their 1st AL pennant |
| October 15 | Charles Taylor launches an offensive against Monrovia Liberia |
| October 15 | Howard Stern radio show begins broadcasting on WLUP-AM, Chicago, Illinois |
| October 15 | New York City Subway motorman Robert Ray convicted of manslaughter in death of 5 riders, when he fell asleep drunk while in control of train |
| October 16 | 1,700th David Letterman Show |
| October 16 | 1964 "Gilligan's Island" TV pilot 1st shown on TV (TBS) |
| October 17 | 1st World Series with non-U.S. team, Toronto loses 3-1 to Braves |
| October 18 | 1st non-U.S. team to win a World Series Game; Toronto 5, Atlanta 4 |
| October 18 | 6.6 earthquake hits Colombia with no fatalities |
| October 18 | "Oba Oba '93" closes at Marquis Theater New York City after 22 performances |
| October 18 | Philadelphia Eagle Randall Cunningham sets NFL quarterback scramble record of 3,683 |
| October 18 | Start of Zimbabwe's 1st Test match, vs. India at Harare |
| October 20 | 1st World Series game outside of U.S. - Toronto beats Atlanta |
| October 20 | David Houghton gets Zimbabwe's 1st Test ton (121 vs. India, debut) |
| October 21 | Madonna's book "Sex" goes on sale |
| October 22 | Atlanta, becomes 1st U.S. team to win a World Series game out of US |
| October 22 | Space Shuttle STS-52 (Columbia 13) launches into space |
| October 22 | Wendy Wasserstein's "Sisters Rosensweig," premieres in New York City |
| October 24 | Toronto Blue Jays beat Atl Braves, 4 games to 2, in 88th World Series |
| October 25 | "Dancing at Lughnasa" closes at Plymouth Theater New York City after 421 performances |
| October 25 | "Jake's Women" closes at Neil Simon Theater New York City after 245 performances |
| October 25 | Rene Lachemann hired as Florida Marlins 1st manager |
| October 27 | Don Baylor appointed 1st manager of Colorado Rockies |
| October 27 | Fox is to launch Tuesday night network TV, rescheduled to Decemeber |
| October 27 | Great Britain issues postage stamp on 100th anniversary of Tolkien |
| October 27 | Tipper Gore (wife of future Vice President) admits to covering clock on her VCR with black tape so she wouldn't have to watch it blink |
| October 28 | Lee Jang Rim predicts that today would be the end of the world! |
| October 30 | Metropolitan Transportation Authority begins installing automated fare collection turnstiles |
| October 31 | Don Keller makes his 18,000th sky dive |
| October 31 | Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: A P Indy, Fraise, Gilded Time, Liza, Lure, Paseana, Thirty Slews at Gulfstream Park |
| October 31 | Roman Catholic church reinstates Galileo Galilei after 359 years |
| November 1 | 22nd New York City Women's Marathon won by Lisa Ondieki in 2:24:40 |
| November 1 | 23rd New York City Marathon won by Willie Mtolo in 2:09:29 |
| November 1 | New York Jet Al Toon becomes 10th NFL to catch a pass in 100 straight games |
| November 1 | Space Shuttle STS-52 (Columbia 13) lands (scheduled) |
| November 2 | 1st test flight of Airbus A330 |
| November 3 | Bill Clinton wins U.S. presidential election over President Bush |
| November 3 | Carol Moseley Brown elected 1st black female in U.S. Senate |
| November 4 | New York Giants announce they will quit WNEW Radio after 32 years for WOR |
| November 4 | New York Jets announce they are moving from WABC to WFAN radio |
| November 5 | Bobby Fisher beats Boris Spassky to with Chess title in Belgrade |
| November 5 | "Show Off" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 45 performances |
| November 7 | 1st NBA game at America West Arena, Phoenix Suns beat Clippers 111-105 |
| November 8 | 300,000 demonstrators against racism in Berlin |
| November 8 | Betsy King wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic |
| November 8 | "Solitary Confinement" opens at Nederlander Theater New York City for 25 performances |
| November 9 | Howard Stern's radio show begins broadcast in Las Vegas Nevada on KFBI |
| November 9 | Prix Goncourt awarded to Patrick Chamoiseau for "Texaco" |
| November 11 | Anglican Church and Church of England OK female priests |
| November 12 | New York Yankee pitcher Steve Howe is reinstated for 8th time |
| November 13 | Riddick Bowe beats Evander Holyfield in 12 for heavywgt boxing title |
| November 14 | Actress Peg Phillips (Northern Exposure), falls and breaks 3 fingers |
| November 15 | Cuban Ilyushin IL-18 flight to Puerto Plata crashes, 34 die |
| November 15 | Praveen Amre scores century on Test Cricket debut (103 vs. SA, Durban) |
| November 17 | Blue Jay Nigel Wilson is 1st pick of Marlins in expansion draft |
| November 17 | Dateline NBC airs a demonstration show General Motors trucks, blowing up on impact, later revealed NBC rigged test |
| November 17 | Erling Kagge begins successful exploration at South pole |
| November 17 | "Gypsy Passion" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 55 performances |
| November 18 | Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Las Vegas, Nevada on KXTE 107.5 FM |
| November 18 | "Malcolm X" with Denzel Washington premieres in US |
| November 19 | "3 From Brooklyn" opens at Helen Hayes Theater New York City for 45 performances |
| November 20 | Queen Elizabeth's home Windsor Castle catches fire |
| November 21 | Jan Karlsson swims world record 50m butterfly (23.80 sec) |
| November 21 | Jani Sievinen swims world record 100m medley (53.78 sec) |
| November 21 | Louise Karlsson swims world record 50m freestyle (31.19 sec) |
| November 21 | Sam's Town Bowling Invitational won by Tish Johnson |
| November 22 | Sandra Volker swims world record 50m backstroke (28.57 sec) |
| November 22 | Washington Post reports Ore Senator Bob Packwood sexually harassed 10 women |
| November 23 | 10,000,000 cellular telephone sold |
| November 23 | "Someone Who'll Watch Over Me" opens at Booth New York City for 232 performances |
| November 24 | Boeing 734 crashes into mountain in China, kills 141 |
| November 27 | Howard Stern Interview premieres on E! Network |
| November 27 | Part of Vienna Hofburg destroyed by fire |
| November 29 | 80th CFL Grey Cup: Calgary Stampeders defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 24-10 |
| November 29 | "Sea Gull" opens at Lyceum Theater New York City for 48 performances |
| November 29 | "Solitary Confinement" closes at Nederlander New York City after 25 performances |
| November 30 | David Boon's 14th Test Cricket century, 111 vs. WI at Brisbane |
| November 30 | Intercity-train derailed at Village chief, 5 die |
| December 1 | 2 C-141B Starlifters collide in Montana and crash, 13 die |
| December 1 | Amy Fisher sentenced 5-15 years for shooting Mary Jo Buttafuoco |
| December 2 | WQEW-AM radio replaces WQXR on 1560 in New York City |
| December 3 | U.N. Security Council votes unanimous for U.S. led forces to enter Somalia |
| December 6 | 300,000 hindus destroy mosque of Babri India, 4 die |
| December 6 | 81st Davis Cup: USA beats Switzerland in Fort Worth (3-1) |
| December 6 | Dottie Mochrie/Dan Forsmann wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
| December 6 | San Francisco Giants renig on $43 million pact with Barry Bonds |
| December 6 | SF 49er Jerry Rice catches NFL record 101st touchdown |
| December 7 | Galileo spacecraft passes North Pole of Moon (Peary Crater) |
| December 8 | Galileo's nearest approach to Jupiter (303 km) |
| December 8 | NBC announces that "Cheers" will go off the air in May, 1993 |
| December 9 | 3rd Billboard Music Awards |
| December 9 | Cincinnati Red owner Marge Schott apologizes for racist remarks |
| December 9 | New Jersey Devils organization announces that it will change its colors to black, red, and white for the 1992-93 season |
| December 9 | Operation Restore Hope - U.S. Marines land in Somalia |
| December 9 | Sri Lanka's third-ever Test Cricket victory (v New Zealand by 9 wkts) |
| December 10 | "My Favorite Year" opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater New York City for 37 performances |
| December 10 | New York Yankees sign free agent pitcher Jimmy Key |
| December 10 | NHL awards franchises to Mimai and Anaheim (for 1994-95) |
| December 10 | Orlanda Magic scores 14 3-pointers (2 shy of record) |
| December 11 | Nor'easter storm hits NY, doing 1 billion dollars worth of damage |
| December 11 | WNEW AM radio on 1130 in New York City ends transmitting after 58 years |
| December 12 | 58th Heisman Trophy Award: Gino Torretta, Miami, Florida (quarterback) |
| December 12 | 6.8-7.5 earthquake strikes Flores Island (tsunami kills 3,000) |
| December 12 | Japanese crown prince Naruhito announces engagement to Masaka Owada |
| December 12 | Julia Kurotchkina, 18, of Russia, crowned 42nd Miss World |
| December 12 | New York Giants lose 19-0 to Phoenix Cardinals |
| December 13 | Dawn Coe-Jone wins Pizza-La LPGA Match Play Golf Championship |
| December 13 | FCC fines Infinity Broadcasting $600,000 |
| December 13 | "Show Off" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 45 performances |
| December 14 | Lennox Lewis given WBC title, when Riddick Bowe refused to fight him |
| December 15 | Arthur Ashe is named Sports Illustrated Sportman of Year |
| December 15 | WNew AM (1130) New York City resigns air, replaced by WBBR |
| December 17 | "Christmas Carol" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 22 performances |
| December 17 | General Suwa finds tooth of 4.4 million year old Australopithecus ramidus |
| December 18 | FCC vote 4-1 to allow Infinity to purchase Cook Inlet stations |
| December 20 | Northwest and KLM introduce a new joint logo "Worldwide Reliability" |
| December 20 | Slobodan Milosevic re-elected president of Serbia |
| December 21 | Dutch DC-10 in fire at landing on Faro Portugal, 56 die |
| December 22 | Libyan MIG-23UB attacks Boeing 727 at Souk al-Sabt, 158 die |
| December 24 | President Bush pardons Caspar Weinberger in Iran-contra affair |
| December 26 | NY Jet announcer Marty Glickman retires at 75 |
| December 27 | 13th United Negro College Fund raises $11,000,000 |
| December 27 | "3 From Brooklyn" closes at Helen Hayes Theater New York City after 45 performances |
| December 27 | Harry Connick, Jr. is caught with 9mm gun in New York's JFK airport |
| December 27 | "Les Miserables" opens at Ostregaswerks, Copenhagen |
| December 27 | Nancy Sheehan wins LPGA Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge Golf Tournament |
| December 27 | "Tommy Tune Tonite! Song and Dance Act" opens at Gershwin New York City for 10 per |
| December 29 | Governor Cuomo grants Jean Harris (Scarsdale Diet Dr. killer) clemency |
| December 30 | Last day of Test Cricket for Michael Whitney |
| December 30 | Shane Warne takes 7-52 to lead Australian MCG win vs. West Indies |
| December 31 | Target date for Europe's single market |
| December 31 | WCBS TV news anchor Carol Martin weds Joe Terry |
