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

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  • May 1Lithuania introduces a new temporary currency, the talonas.{{cite web|url=https://www.lb.lt/en_about_history|title=Bank of Lithuania : History|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160906121335/http://www.lb.lt/en_about_history|archive-date=September 6, 2016}}
  • May 5
  • Russian leaders in Crimea declare their separation from Ukraine as a new republic. They withdraw the secession on May 10.
  • Armand Césari Stadium disaster in Bastia on Corsica: 18 people are killed and 2,300 are injured when one of the terraces collapses before a football match between SC Bastia and Olympique de Marseille.
  • May 7
  • STS-49: Space Shuttle Endeavour makes its maiden flight, as a replacement for Space Shuttle Challenger.{{cite report |author=Robert W. Fricke |date=July 1992 |title=STS-49: Space shuttle mission report |url=https://www.scribd.com/document/52710703/STS-49-Space-Shuttle-Mission-Report |publisher=National Aeronautics and Space Administration |page=17 |id=NASA-TM-108104 |access-date=27 November 2020}}
  • In the Sydney River McDonald's murders in Nova Scotia, Canada, three McDonald's employees are killed and a fourth is left permanently disabled during a botched robbery.
  • May 9
  • The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is adopted in New York.{{citation|title=Status of Ratification of the Convention|publisher= United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change |url= https://unfccc.int/essential_background/convention/status_of_ratification/items/2631.php |access-date= 10 May 2015}}
  • The Westray Mine in Plymouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, explodes, killing all 26 miners working the night shift.{{cite news|title=Did You Know|url=http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/economy-business/natural-resources/natural-resources-general/the-westray-mining-disaster.html|access-date=May 6, 2012|publisher=CBC News|date=January 30, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120517013145/http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/economy-business/natural-resources/natural-resources-general/the-westray-mining-disaster.html|archive-date=May 17, 2012|location=Toronto|url-status=live}}
  • May 10Sweden wins the Ice Hockey World Championships in Czechoslovakia defeating Finland, 5–2, in the final game in Prague.
  • May 13Falun Gong is introduced by Li Hongzhi in China.
  • May 15 – The Collective Security Treaty Organization is established by six post-Soviet states belonging to the Commonwealth of Independent States (effective April 20, 1994).{{cite book|editor=Arbatov, Alexei G.|title=Russia and the West: the 21st century security environment|year=1999|publisher=Sharpe|location=Armonk, NY|isbn=978-0765604323|page=62|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rHYZk-t7dI0C&pg=PA62|access-date=2015-02-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190823191049/https://books.google.com/books?id=rHYZk-t7dI0C&pg=PA62|archive-date=2019-08-23|url-status=live}}
  • May 1617Bosnian War: U.N. peacekeepers withdraw from Sarajevo.
  • May 17 – Protests begin in Bangkok, Thailand, against the government of General Suchinda Kraprayoon, sparking a bloody crackdown.
  • May 23Capaci bombing: A Mafia bomb on the autostrada in Sicily kills five people, including Italian anti-Mafia judge Giovanni Falcone.{{cite web|url=https://www.corriere.it/International/english/articoli/2012/03/08/borsellino.shtml|title=New Arrests for Via D'Amelio Bomb Attack|work=Corriere della Sera|date=8 March 2012|access-date=9 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121013204755/http://www.corriere.it/International/english/articoli/2012/03/08/borsellino.shtml|archive-date=13 October 2012|url-status=live}}
  • May 24
  • In Thailand, Suchinda Kraprayoon agrees to resign.{{cite book|author=Derbyshire|title=Encyclopedia of World Political Systems|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RyAGDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA266|date=15 April 2016|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-47156-1|pages=266}}
  • Parliamentary election held in Burkina Faso, for the first time since 1978.
  • May 30United Nations Security Council Resolution 757 imposes economic sanctions on Yugoslavia in an effort to end its attacks on Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Births and deaths

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Nobel Prizes

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Sources

  • [http://www.newyorker.com/shouts/content/?050117sh_shouts 1992 House by Bill Frolick] – article about 1992 from The New Yorker magazine.

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