Editing 1992 (section)

===October===
*[[October 1]] – [[Cartoon Network]], a 24/7 children's television channel, is launched in the United States.
*[[October 2]] – A riot breaks out in the [[Carandiru Penitentiary]] in [[São Paulo]], [[Brazil]], resulting in the [[Carandiru massacre]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/04/world/111-killed-when-police-storm-brazilian-prison-during-inmate-riot.html|title=111 Killed When Police Storm Brazilian Prison During Inmate Riot|last=Brooke|first=James|date=1992-10-04|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-01-30|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
*[[October 3]] – After performing a song protesting against alleged [[Catholic Church sexual abuse cases|Catholic Church child sexual abuse]], Irish singer-songwriter [[Sinéad O'Connor]] rips up a photograph of [[Pope John Paul II]] on the US television programme ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'', causing huge controversy.
*[[October 4]]
**The government of [[Mozambique]] signs the [[Rome General Peace Accords]] with leaders of [[RENAMO]], ending the 16-year-old [[Mozambican Civil War]].
**Israeli cargo plane [[El Al Flight 1862]] crashes into residential buildings in Amsterdam's [[Bijlmermeer]], Netherlands, after taking off from [[Amsterdam Airport Schiphol|Schiphol Airport]] and losing two engines, killing all 4 people on board and 39 on the ground.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://english.verkeerenwaterstaat.nl/kennisplein/page_kennisplein.aspx?id=39448&DossierURI=tcm:195-17547-4|title=Aircraft accident report 92-11 : El Al Flight 1862 Boeing 747-258F 4X-AXG Bijlmermeer, Amsterdam 4 October 1992|date=24 February 1994|publisher=[[Nederlands Aviation Safety Board]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080626181929/http://verkeerenwaterstaat.nl/kennisplein/uploaded/MIN/2005-07/39448/ElAl_flight_1862.pdf|archive-date=26 June 2008}}</ref>
*[[October 6]] – [[Lennart Meri]] becomes the first [[President of Estonia]] after regaining independence. The [[Estonian Government in Exile]] resigns on the next day.
*[[October 7]] – In [[Peru]], [[Shining Path]] leader [[Abimael Guzmán]] is convicted of treason and sentenced to life in prison.
*[[October 11]] – The ''[[Catechism of the Catholic Church]]'' is promulgated by [[Pope John Paul II]] with his [[apostolic constitution]], ''[[Fidei depositum]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/apost_constitutions/documents/hf_jp-ii_apc_19921011_fidei-depositum_en.html|title=Fidei depositum|access-date=June 14, 2012|date=October 11, 1992|publisher=Libreria Editrice Vaticana}}</ref>
*[[October 12]]
**In the [[Dominican Republic]], [[Pope John Paul II]] celebrates the 500th anniversary of the meeting of two cultures.
**The 5.8 {{M|b|link=y}} [[1992 Cairo earthquake|Cairo earthquake]] affects the city with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (''Severe''), leaving 545 dead and 6,512 injured.
*[[October 19]] – The [[Chinese Communist Party]] promotes several market-oriented reformers to the [[Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party]], signaling a defeat for hard-line ideologues.
*[[October 20]] – The last [[Military of Serbia and Montenegro|Yugoslav Army]] troops leave [[Croatia]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1992/10/18/Last-Yugoslav-army-troops-withdrawing-from-Croatia/7791719380800/|title=Last Yugoslav army troops withdrawing from Croatia|work=United Press International}}</ref>
*[[October 21]] – 150,000 coal miners march in London to protest government plans to close coal mines and reduce the number of miners.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/150000-marchers-brave-downpour-to-back-miners-1559611.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/150000-marchers-brave-downpour-to-back-miners-1559611.html |archive-date=May 1, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=150,000 marchers brave downpour to back miners|newspaper=The Independent|date=1992-10-26}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
*[[October 23]] – Emperor of Japan [[Akihito]] begins the first imperial visit to China, telling a Beijing audience he feels deep sorrow for the suffering of the Chinese people during World War II.
*[[October 25]] – [[Lithuania]] holds [[referendums in Lithuania|a referendum]] on [[constitution of Lithuania|its first constitution]] after declaring independence from the [[Soviet Union]] in 1990.
*[[October 26]] – In a [[Referendums in Canada|national referendum]], voters in Canada reject the [[Charlottetown Accord]].
*[[October 28]] – [[Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein]] threatens to dissolve the [[Landtag of Liechtenstein]] and dismiss the government over disagreements regarding a referendum on Liechtenstein's accession to the [[European Economic Area]].<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |last=Marxer |first=Wilfried |date=31 December 2011 |title=Staatskrise (28.10.1992) |url=https://historisches-lexikon.li/Staatskrise_(28.10.1992) |access-date=18 February 2024 |website=[[Historisches Lexikon des Fürstentums Liechtenstein]] |language=de}}</ref>
*[[October 31]] – [[Pope John Paul II]] issues an apology and lifts the [[1633]] edict of the [[Inquisition]] against [[Galileo Galilei]].<ref>{{cite journal |journal=[[New Scientist]] |url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg13618460.600-vatican-admits-galileo-was-right-.html |title=Vatican admits Galileo was right |date=1992-11-07 |access-date=2007-08-09 |issue=1846}}.</ref>