Editing 1992 (section)

===January===
* [[January 1]] – [[Boutros Boutros-Ghali]] of [[Egypt]] replaces [[Javier Pérez de Cuéllar]] of [[Peru]] as [[United Nations Secretary-General]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/boutros-boutros-ghali|title=Boutros Boutros-Ghali|publisher=United Nations|access-date=11 November 2020}}</ref>
* [[January 6]]
** The [[Republic of Artsakh|Nagorno-Karabakh Republic]] is proclaimed by the [[Armenians]] of [[Nagorno-Karabakh]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Bill Frelick|title=Faultlines of Nationality Conflict: Refugees and Displaced Persons from Armenia and Azerbaijan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PIQjAQAAMAAJ|year=1994|publisher=U.S. Committee for Refugees|page=15}}</ref>
** [[1991–92 Georgian coup d'état]]: President of Georgia [[Zviad Gamsakhurdia]] flees the country as a result of the military coup.<ref>{{cite book|title=Daily Report: Soviet Union|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=12onwpEz2HAC|year=1992|publisher=The Service|pages=78–81}}</ref>
* [[January 7]] – [[1992 European Community Monitor Mission helicopter downing]]: A Yugoslav Air Force [[Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21]] attacks two Italian Army [[Bell 206|Agusta-Bell AB-206L LongRanger]] helicopters carrying observers from the [[European Community Monitor Mission]]. One crashes, killing five people on board. The other helicopter crash-lands, but its occupants survive.<ref>{{cite book|title=Daily Report: East Europe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PxcUAQAAMAAJ|year=1992|publisher=The Service|pages=16–18}}</ref>
* [[January 9]]
** [[Bosnian Serbs]] declare their [[Republika Srpska (1992–95)|own republic]] within [[Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnia and Herzegovina]], in protest at the decision by [[Bosniaks]] and [[Bosnian Croats]] to seek recognition by the European Communities.<ref>{{cite web |title=Zakon o praznicima Republike Srpske |series=Zakoni |publisher=[[People's Assembly of Republika Srpska]] |language=sr |date=27 July 2005 |url=http://www.narodnaskupstinars.net/lat/zakoni/zakon.php?id_zakona=110 |access-date=10 April 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090611050556/http://www.narodnaskupstinars.net/lat/zakoni/zakon.php?id_zakona=110 |archive-date=11 June 2009}}</ref>
** First confirmed detection of [[exoplanet]]s with announcement of the discovery of several terrestrial-mass planets orbiting the pulsar [[PSR B1257+12]], by radio astronomers [[Aleksander Wolszczan]] and [[Dale Frail]] working in the United States.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Wolszczan|first1=A.|bibcode=1992Natur.355..145W|last2=Frail|first2=D. A.|doi=10.1038/355145a0|title=A planetary system around the millisecond pulsar PSR1257+12|journal=[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]|volume=355|issue=6356|pages=145–7|year=1992|s2cid=4260368|issn=0028-0836 }}</ref>
* [[January 15]] – The [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]] begins to break up; [[Slovenia]] and [[Croatia]] gain independence and international recognition in some Western countries.
* [[January 16]] – [[El Salvador]] officials and rebel leaders sign the [[Chapultepec Peace Accords]] in Mexico City, ending the 12-year [[Salvadoran Civil War]] that claimed at least 75,000 lives.
* [[January 19]]
**In the [[1992 Bulgarian presidential election|Bulgarian presidential election]], the first held by direct vote, [[Zhelyu Zhelev]], leader of the [[Union of Democratic Forces (Bulgaria)|Union of Democratic Forces]], retains office.<ref>[[Dieter Nohlen]] & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p369 {{ISBN|978-3-8329-5609-7}}</ref>
** [[Paramount Leader]] of China [[Deng Xiaoping]] speaks in Shenzhen during his southern tour, a move that would return China on its right-wing march towards [[free market]] economics.<ref>{{cite book|last=Campanella|first=Thomas J.|title=The Concrete Dragon: China's Urban Revolution and What it Means for the World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FlAk43g92g4C&pg=PA36|year=2012|publisher=Chronicle Books|isbn=978-1-56898-948-8|page=36}}</ref>
* [[January 20]] – [[Air Inter Flight 148]], an [[Airbus A320 family|Airbus A320-111]], crashes in the [[Vosges Mountains]] near [[Barr, Bas-Rhin|Barr]], France, while circling to land at [[Strasbourg]], France, killing 87 of the 96 people on board. Facing tough competition from French high-speed [[TGV]] trains, [[Air Inter]] had encouraged its pilots to fly at high speeds at low altitudes, and had not installed [[ground proximity warning system]]s on its airliners because such systems generated too many nuisance alarms during high-speed, low-altitude flight.
* [[January 22]] – Rebel forces occupy [[Zaire]]'s national radio station in [[Kinshasa]] and broadcast a demand for the government's resignation.<ref>{{cite book|author=E. O'Ballance|title=The Congo-Zaire Experience, 1960–98|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vfCADAAAQBAJ&pg=PA144|date=2 November 1999|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK|isbn=978-0-230-28648-1|pages=144}}</ref>
* [[January 24]] – China and [[Israel]] establish diplomatic relations.
* [[January 26]]
** [[Boris Yeltsin]] announces that Russia will stop targeting cities of the United States and its allies with [[nuclear weapon]]s. In return President [[George H. W. Bush]] announces that the United States and its allies will stop targeting Russia and the remaining [[Communism|communist]] states with nuclear weapons.
**In [[Mauritania]], security forces open fire on violent extremist opponents of President of Mauritania [[Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya]], allegedly killing at least four people. 
* [[January 27]] – [[First Nagorno-Karabakh War]]: in the disputed territory of [[Nagorno-Karabakh]], fighting between [[Armenians]] and [[Azerbaijani people|Azeris]] leaves at least 60 people dead.
* [[January 30]] – [[North Korea]] signs an accord with the [[International Atomic Energy Agency]] allowing for international inspections of [[North Korea and weapons of mass destruction|North Korea's nuclear power plants]].