January 1992 calendar

Events

• 01 Jan 1992 Bush is 1st US President to address Australian Parliament
• 02 Jan 1992 Test debut of Shane Warne, versus India at Sydney.
• 03 Jan 1992 32 Cubans defect to the US via helicopter.
• 05 Jan 1992 6 Degrees of Separation closes at Vivian Beaumont NYC after 496 performances
• 06 Jan 1992 Shane Warne takes 1-150 in his first Test innings.
• 07 Jan 1992 AT&T releases video-telephone ($1499).
• 08 Jan 1992 US President George H. W. Bush is televised falling violently ill at a state dinner in Japan, vomiting into the lap of Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa and fainting.
• 09 Jan 1992 At the Winter Consumer Electronics Show, Apple Computer chairman John Sculley coins the term Personal Digital Assistant, referring to handheld computers that typically operate via a stylus on a LCD display. Sculley announces that Apple will enter the consumer-electronics market by the end of the year.
• 10 Jan 1992 8th Soap Opera Digest Awards
• 11 Jan 1992 US female Figure Skating championship won by Kristi Yamaguchi.
• 12 Jan 1992 Last building in Gateway area in Cleveland is demolished
• 13 Jan 1992 US serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer pleads guilty but insane to the murders of 15 young men and boys.
• 15 Jan 1992 Cleaning woman finds intimate photos of Sarah Ferguson with US man
• 16 Jan 1992 2 Shakespearean Actors opens at Cort Theater NYC for 29 performances
• 17 Jan 1992 Sarah Ferguson attends dinner of Everglades club (club excludes Jews)
• 18 Jan 1992 49th Golden Globes
• 19 Jan 1992 City of Angels closes at Virginia Theater NYC after 878 performances
• 20 Jan 1992 Australia beats India 2-0 to win the World Series Cup.
• 21 Jan 1992 Faced with decreased military spending, United Technologies Corporation announces it will eliminate 13,900 jobs by 1993.
• 22 Jan 1992 Princess Sarah Ferguson wears paper bag over her head on airline ride
• 23 Jan 1992 Visit opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 45 performances
• 25 Jan 1992 Dan Jansen skates world record 500m in 36.41 seconds.
• 26 Jan 1992 Little Hotel on the Side opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 41 performances
• 27 Jan 1992 Crazy He Calls Me opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC for 7 performances
• 28 Jan 1992 Stan Hansen beats Jumbo Tsuruta to win All Japan Triple Crown.
• 29 Jan 1992 Willie Dixon, American blues composer ("I'm a Man", "Backdoor Man"), dies at age 76 (born 1915).
• 30 Jan 1992 Space Shuttle STS-42 (Discovery 15) lands.
• 31 Jan 1992 MTA raised tolls on most NYC bridges from $2.50 to $3.00

Famous Birthday

• Logan Lerman

  Movie Actor.

• Mac Miller

  American rapper.

• Delphine Wespiser
• Georgia Jagger

  English fashion model, the fourth daughter and fifth child of Rolling Stones' singer Mick Jagger; third child of his second wife Jerry Hall.

• Suki Waterhouse

  Model.

• Shawn Johnson

  American gymnast.

• Sheldry Sáez
• Jack Reynor

  Movie Actor.

• Sasha Banks

  Wrestler.

• Tyler Seguin

  Canadian hockey player.

• Tiffany Pisani
• Verónica Cepede Royg
• Vincent Aboubakar
• Koke (footballer born 1992)
• Daniel Carvajal

  Soccer Player.

• Thibault Colard
• James Duckworth (tennis)
• Daniela Braga
• Eleonora Cortini
• Iron (rapper)
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Famous Deaths

• A J Antoon

  Director (That Championship Season), dies at 47.

• Hari Rhodes

  American actor, a black stuntman and physical action hero in films that required martial arts, judo and karate.

• Charles Moulin

  French actor (French Tarzan).

• Freddie Bartholomew

  England, United Kingdom -- Actor (Anna Karenina, David Copperfield).

• Dorothy Alison

  Actress (Maggie, 3rd Key, Long Arm).

• Menachim Begin

  Israeli Prime Minister, dies at 78 of a heart attack.

• Jhean Burton

  Entertainer.

• Earl Colbert

  Entertainer.

• Ali Amini

  Prime Minister of Iran (1961-62).

• Yvonne Bryceland

  Actress (Road to Mecca), dies of cancer at 66.

• John Bleifer

  Actor (Highway to Heaven), dies at 90.

• John Touchstone

  Actor (Across Five Aprils), dies of cirrhosis at 59.

• Vernon William Reed Sr

  Singer, dies after a long illness at 73.

• Francesca Primus

  Columnist (Back Stage), dies at 45.

• Elaine McKenna

  Australian actress (Peg Martin-Cell Block H).

• Tom Elios

  Entertainer.

• John Remme

  Entertainer, dies of AIDS at 56.

• Barbara Couper

  British actress (Last Days of Dolwyn), dies at 89.

• Dame Judith Anderson

  Australian actress (Born 1897).

• Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies

  British actress (Eliza Dolittle), dies at 101.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Michael Jackson - Black Or White
2. Color Me Badd - All 4 Love
3. George Michael - Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me
4. Boyz II Men - It's So Hard To Say Goodbye To Yesterday
5. Mariah Carey - Can't Let Go

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody / These Are The Days Of Our Lives
2. The KLF featuring Tammy Wynette - Justified And Ancient
3. Wet Wet Wet - Goodnight Girl
4. Right Said Fred - Don't Talk Just Kiss
5. Hammer - Addams Groove