The world at your birth

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    * June 1 - Kentucky celebrates its bicentennial statehood.
    * June 1 - Venezuelan revolutionary Carlos (the Jackal) is sentenced to life imprisonment.
    * June 3 - Four nuclear missiles are launched into the Pacific Ocean.
    * June 8 - The first World Ocean Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
    * June 15 - During a spelling bee at a Trenton, New Jersey elementary school, U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle erroneously corrects a student's spelling of the word potato, indicating it should have an e at the end.
    * June 17 - A 'Joint Understanding' agreement on arms reduction is signed by U.S. President George H.W. Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin (this is later codified in START II).
    * June 20 - In Estonia, kroon replaces Soviet ruble.
    * June 22 - Two skeletons excavated in Yekaterinburg are identified as Czar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra.
    * June 22 - Briana Michelle Bowman was born.
    * June 23 - Mafia boss John Gotti is sentenced to life in prison, after being found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder and racketeering on April 2.
    * June 26 - Denmark beats Germany 2-0 to win the 1992 UEFA European Football Championship at Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg, Sweden.
    * June 28 - A magnitude 7.3 earthquake strikes Landers, California, followed by a magnitude 6.4 aftershock 8km south-east of Big Bear Lake, California.
    * June 28 - Estonia holds a referendum on its constitution.
    * June 29 - A bodyguard assassinates President Muhammad Boudiaf of Algeria.
    * June 30 - Retired general and Defense Secretary Fidel Ramos is sworn in as the 12th President of the Philippines, having won elections held the previous month.
    * July 6-July 29 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq refuses a U.N. inspection team access to the Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture. UNSCOM claims that it has reliable information that the site contains archives related to illegal weapons activities. U.N. Inspectors stage a 17-day "sit-in" outside of the building, but leave when their safety is threatened by Iraqi soldiers.
    * July 10 - In Miami, Florida, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.
    * July 16 - Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton is nominated for U.S. President and Tennessee Senator Al Gore for Vice President, at the Democratic National Convention in New York City.
    * July 20 - Václav Havel resigns as president of Czechoslovakia.
    * July 22 - Near Medellín, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison, fearing extradition to the United States.
    * July 25 - August 9 - The 1992 Summer Olympics are held in Barcelona, Spain.
    * July 31 - The ex-Soviet Republic of Georgia becomes the 179th member of the United Nations.
    * August 10 - The UK government bans the Ulster Defence Association, a loyalist paramilitary organisation that had been legal for twenty years.
    * August 11 - The largest shopping mall in the US, Minnesota's Mall of America is constructed on 78 acres (316,000 m²).
    * August 20 - Kristiansund's connection to the main land of Norway, Krifast, opens.
    * August 20 - The Republican National Convention in Houston, Texas renominates U.S. President George H.W. Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle. Pat Buchanan, one of Bush's opponents in the primaries, delivers a controversial convention speech, in which he refers to a "religious war" in the country.
    * August 21 - August 22 - Events at Ruby Ridge, Idaho are sparked by a Federal Marshal surveillance team, resulting in the death of a Marshal, Sam Weaver and his dog and the next day the wounding of Randy Weaver, the death of his wife Vicki and the wounding of Kevin Harris.
    * August 24 - August 28 - Hurricane Andrew hits south Florida and dissipates over the Tennessee valley when it merges with a storm system; 23 are killed.