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All Events
The parliament in Bosnia-Herzegovina votes to secede from the crumbling Yugoslavia
Aung San Suu Kyi wins the Nobel Peace Prize for her courageous fight for democracy in Burma
Armenia delcares its independence from the USSR, 70 years after it was annexed
The US spacecraft Galileo provides scientists with close-up photographs of two asteroids, Gaspra and Ida
Multiparty elections in Zambia result in a massive defeat for the long-serving president, Kenneth Kaunda
The Soviet region of Chechnya proclaims its independence from the USSR, calling itself the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria
Gong Li plays a concubine of a Chinese warlord in Raise the Red Lantern, directed by Zhang Yimou
A new party, the Islamic Salvation Front, seems certain to win the Algerian election – until the army intervenes
Three Soviet republics (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus) declare independence, leading to the formal disbanding of the USSR
A treaty signed in the Netherlands town of Maastricht establishes the European Union and prepares for the introduction of the euro
Paul Keating becomes prime minister of Australia after a Labor party leadership contest against Bob Hawke
Eight more Soviet Socialist republics vote to join the three founder members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
Kurds in northern Iraq achieves a measure of autonomy in a safe haven imposed by the UN
Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as president of the defunct USSR, handing power to Boris Yeltsin as president of the new Russian republic
British artist Marc Quinn creates Self, the first in a series of cast sculptures of his head, made from his own frozen blood
Mark Edwards re-establishes traditional boatbuilding at the Richmond Bridge boathouses., next door to Stan Peasley, the last of the traditional watermen/boathirers
Saw Maung resigns as Burma's dictator and is replaced by Than Shwe (who still heads the junta some 20 years later)
Algeria is plunged into a brutal civil war between a military junta and Muslim terrorists
US author Jane Smiley retells the Lear story in A Thousand Acres
After years of restoration and re-interpretation the King's State Apartments at Hampton Court reopen in July 1992
Fighting intensifies between Serbs and Croats, Christians and Muslims, for territory within Bosnia-Herzegovina
Riots follow the acquittal of four Los Angeles policemen charged with assaulting the African American Rodney King
Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic encourages ethnic cleansing by paramilitaries in Bosnia
A Land Acquisition Act enables Mugabe to purchase land compulsorily, abandoning the 'willing buyer, willing seller' principle agreed at Lancaster House
US-born Canadian author Carol Shields' novel The Republic of Love is set in her home town of Winnipeg
