2nd » An 1992 Nicaragua earthquake e.g earthquake in Nicaragua kills at least 116 people.
6th » Hunters discover the emaciated body of Christopher McCandless at his camp convert 20 mi km west of the town of Healy, Alaska.
11th » Hurricane Iniki, one of the most damaging hurricanes in United States history, devastates the Hawaiian islands of Kauai and Oahu.
12th » NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour or Space Shuttle 'Endeavour' on STS-47 which marked the 50th shuttle mission. On board are Mae Jemison or Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese citizen to fly i
14th » The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina declares the breakaway Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia to be illegal.
16th » The trial of the deposed Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega ends in the United States with a 40 year sentence for drug trafficking and money laundering.
16th » Black Wednesday: The pound sterling or pound is forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism by speculation e.g currency speculators and is forced to devalue against the German mark.
17th » An Iranian Kurdistan Iranian Kurdish leader and his two joiners are Mykonos restaurant assassinations assassinated by political militants in Berlin Berlin, Germany.
18th » An explosion rocks Giant Mine at the height of a labor dispute, killing nine replacement workers.
23rd » A large Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb destroys forensic laboratories in Belfast.
25th » NASA launches the 'Mars Observer', a $511 million probe to Mars, in the first U.S. mission to the planet in 17 years. Eleven months later, the probe would fail.
29th » Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello is impeachment e.g impeached.
14th » August Komendant, Estonian-American engineer (b. 1906)
14th » Paul Joseph James Martin, Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Minister of Foreign Affairs (Canada) e.g Minister of Foreign Affairs for Canada (b. 1903)
16th » Millicent Fenwick, American journalist and politician (b. 1910)
17th » Roger Wagner, American conductor and educator (b. 1914)
18th » Mohammad Hidayatullah, Indian lawyer, judge, and politician, 6th Vice President of India (b. 1905)