Editing 1992 (section)

===May===
* [[May 1]] – [[Lithuania]] introduces a new temporary currency, the [[talonas]].<ref>{{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}}</ref>
* [[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|Space Shuttle ''Endeavour'']] makes its maiden flight, as a replacement for [[Space Shuttle Challenger|Space Shuttle ''Challenger'']].<ref>{{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=[[NASA|National Aeronautics and Space Administration]] |page=17 |id=NASA-TM-108104 |access-date=27 November 2020}}</ref>
**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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
** The [[Westray Mine]] in Plymouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, explodes, killing all 26 miners working the night shift.<ref>{{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}}</ref> 
* [[May 10]] – [[Sweden men's national ice hockey team|Sweden]] wins the [[Ice Hockey World Championships]] in [[Czechoslovakia]] defeating [[Finland men's national ice hockey team|Finland]], 5–2, in the final game in [[Prague]].
* [[May 13]] – [[Falun 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).<ref>{{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}}</ref>
*[[May 16]]–[[May 17|17]] – [[Bosnian War]]: [[United Nations peacekeeping|U.N. peacekeepers]] withdraw from [[Sarajevo]].
*[[May 17]] – Protests begin in [[Bangkok]], [[Thailand]], against the government of General [[Suchinda Kraprayoon]], sparking a [[Black May (1992)|bloody crackdown]].
*[[May 23]] – [[Capaci bombing]]: A [[Sicilian Mafia|Mafia]] bomb on the autostrada in Sicily kills five people, including Italian anti-Mafia judge [[Giovanni Falcone]].<ref>{{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}}</ref>
*[[May 24]]
**In [[Thailand]], [[Suchinda Kraprayoon]] agrees to resign.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
**[[1992 Burkinabé parliamentary election|Parliamentary election]] held in [[Burkina Faso]], for the first time since 1978.
*[[May 30]] – [[United Nations Security Council Resolution 757]] imposes economic [[sanctions on Yugoslavia]] in an effort to end its attacks on Bosnia and Herzegovina.