- Jan 6 "Real Life With Jane Pauley" premieres on NBC-TV
- Jan 14 "Barbara DeAngelis Show" premieres on CBS-TV
- Jan 14 Tyne Daly arrested for drunk driving in Van Nuys, California
- Jan 16 7th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Lives wins
- Jan 17 Mountie Jacques Rougeau beats Hart for WWF intercontinental title
- Jan 19 Sgt Slaughter defeats Ultimate Warrior for WWF championship belt
- Jan 20 Paul Chihara and John Driver's musical "Shogun - The Musical", based on James Clavell's novel, closes at Marquis Theater, NYC, after 72 performances
- Jan 21 CBS News correspondant Bob Simon and four TV crew captured and held for 40 days by Iraqis in the Persian Gulf
- Jan 25 Soap opera "Generation's" last episode after a 2½ year run
- Jan 27 7th Sundance Film Festival: "Poison" wins Grand Jury Prize Dramatic
- Jan 28 "A Closer Look" with Faith Daniels premieres on NBC-TV
- Jan 31 "Close-Up", Iranian film directed by Abbas Kiarostami, starring Hossain Sabzian and Mohsen Makhmalbaf, is released
"The Soul Cages"
Feb 2 Sting scores his second UK #1 album with 'The Soul Cages'
Trebak Makes Game Show History
Feb 4 Alex Trebek becomes first person to host three American game shows at the same time (Jeopardy!, Classic Concentration, To Tell the Truth)
Stern Kisses Marshall
Feb 5 Howard Stern kisses NY Giant Leonard Marshall's ass over bet, Stern lost claiming the Giants would lose the Super Bowl
The Silence of the Lambs
Feb 14 "The Silence of the Lambs" film based on the book by Thomas Harris, directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins, is released (Best Picture 1992)
Film & TV History
Feb 14 Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston's stage comedy "Mule Bone" opens at Ethel Barrymore Theatre, NYC; runs for 68 performances
- Feb 15 41st Berlin International Film Festival: "The House of Smiles" wins the Golden Bear
Music History
Feb 20 Alan Ayckbourn's stage farce "Taking Steps" opens at Circle in Square Theater, NYC; runs for 78 performances
Music History
Feb 21 Neil Simon's stage comic-drama "Lost in Yonkers", starring Mercedes Ruehl and Kevin Spacey, opens at Richard Rodgers Theater, NYC; runs for 780 performances, winning 5 Tony Awards and a Pulitzer Prize
- Feb 22 Kelli McCarty, 21, (Kansas), crowned 40th Miss USA
- Mar 3 Brooke Allen's stage drama "The Big Love", a one-woman show starring Tracey Ullman, opens at Plymouth Theater, NYC; runs for 41 performances
- Mar 9 5th American Comedy Award: Dennis Wolfberg
Music Concert
Mar 10 Rock for the Rainforest benefit concert held at Carnegie Hall, NYC; performers include: Sting, Elton John, Gilberto Gil; Antonio Carlos Jobim, and Caetano Veloso
Mar 17 44th British Film and Television Awards (BAFTAs): "Goodfellas" Best Film, Martin Scorsese Best Director
Music History
Mar 20 Court awards singer-songwriter Peggy Lee $3 million in suit against Disney regarding home video royalties
- Mar 21 Largest wrestling crowd in Japan (64,500) at Tokyo Dome
- Mar 21 Tatsumi Fujinami beats Ric Flair for NWA wrestling championship
- Mar 24 11th Golden Raspberry Awards: Ford Fairlane & Ghosts Can't Do It wins
Mar 24 WrestleMania VII in LA Memorial Sports Arena, CA: Hulk Hogan beats Sgt Slaughter for WWF Heavyweight title
Mar 25 Country singer Reba McEntire performs as scheduled at the Academy Awards ceremony, just 9 days after nearly her entire band dies in a plane crash
Refrigerator Tour
Apr 3 "Penn and Teller - Refrigerator Tour" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC
- Apr 6 Former child actor Adam Rich arrested for breaking into a pharmacy
- Apr 7 Brooke Allen's stage drama "The Big Love", a one-woman show starring Tracey Ullman, closes at Plymouth Theater, NYC, after 41 performances
Miss Saigon
Apr 11 Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil's musical "Miss Saigon", based on Giacomo Puccini's "Madama Butterfly", and starring Jonathon Pryce and Lea Salonga opens at Broadway Theater, NYC; runs for 4,092 performances, winning 3 Tony Awards
- Apr 11 NYC's Museum of Broadcasting becomes "Museum of Radio & Television"
- Apr 12 2,500th episode of Entertainment Tonight airs
- Apr 14 Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston's stage comedy "Mule Bone" closes at Ethel Barrymore Theatre, NYC, after 68 performances
- Apr 15 Former child actor Adam Rich (Eight Is Enough) charged with burglary
Carson Announces Retirement
Apr 22 Johnny Carson announces he will retire next year from "The Tonight Show"
- Apr 22 Shalom America (Jewish cable network) is launched in Brooklyn & Queens
Music Premiere
Apr 25 Lucy Simon & Marsha Norman's musical "The Secret Garden", based on Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel, starring Daisy Eagan and Mandy Patinkin, opens at St James Theater, NYC; runs for 706 performances, winning 3 Tony Awards
- Apr 26 "Dinosaurs" premieres on ABC-TV
Television Finale
May 3 356th & final episode of CBS second longest running series TV show "Dallas", (2nd only to "Gunsmoke")
- May 4 ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Doug Kent
Doctorate of Music
May 4 Phil Collins, Al Jarreau, Ikutaro Kakehashi and Joe Zawinul receive honorary doctorate degrees from the Berklee College of Music in Boston [1]
- May 9 Italian actress Laura Antonelli found guilty of cocaine possession (conviction overturned 2006)
- May 9 Michael Landon appears on The Tonight Show to talk about his cancer prognosis
- May 17 Lupita Jones, 23, of Mexico, crowned 40th Miss Universe
- May 20 44th Cannes Film Festival: "Barton Fink" directed by Ethan and Joel Coen wins the Palme d'Or
- Jun 19 Two of actress Mia Farrow's daughters are arrested for shoplifting lingerie
Jackie Mason - Brand New
Jun 29 "Jackie Mason - Brand New" closes at Neil Simon Theater, NYC, after 216 performances
- Jul 4 24th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at Pan Pacific Hotel
- Jul 26 Actor Paul Reubens (Pee-wee Herman) is arrested for exposing himself at an adult movie theater in Sarasota, Florida
- Jul 30 MTV announces it will split into 3 channels in 1993
Hedy Lamarr Arrested
Aug 1 Actress Hedy Lamarr, aged 76, is arrested for shoplifting in Florida [1]
- Aug 19 Janel Bishop, 17, of New Hampshire, crowned 9th Miss Teen USA
- Aug 25 43rd Emmy Awards: "LA Law", "Cheers", Kirstie Alley & Patricia Wettig win
- Sep 3 48th Venice Film Festival: "Close to Eden" directed by Nikita Mikhalkov wins Golden Lion
- Sep 7 "The New WKRP in Cincinnati", an ensemble TV sitcom sequel created by Hugh Wilson and set in a struggling radio station debuts in syndication; 3 members of the original series cast reprise their roles
- Sep 14 16th Toronto International Film Festival: "The Fisher King" directed by Terry Gilliam wins the People's Choice Award
- Sep 14 Carolyn Suzanne Sapp (Hawaii), 24, crowned 65th Miss America 1992
- Sep 24 "Good & Evil" & "Sibs" premieres on ABC TV
- Sep 25 "Good & Evil" premieres on ABC TV
- Sep 27 "Princesses" premieres on CBS TV
- Sep 28 "Commish" debuts on ABC-TV
- Oct 27 "André Heller's Wonderhouse", starring Billy Barty, closes at Broadhurst Theatre, NYC, after 9 performances
- Oct 29 American commercial fishing vessel (F/V) 'Andrea Gail' and crew of 6 lost at sea near Sable Island in North Atlantic Ocean; story becomes basis for book and film "The Perfect Storm"
Black or White
Nov 14 Michael Jackson's "Black or White" music video with groundbreaking morphing effects premieres simultaneously in 27 countries on MTV, Fox TV and BBC's Top of the Pops
- Nov 17 1st TV condom ad aired (FOX- TV)
Phool Aur Kaante
Nov 22 "Phool Aur Kaante", the film debut of famous Indian actor Ajay Devgan, is released
- Nov 24 CFL Grey Cup, Winnipeg Stadium: Toronto Argonauts defeat Calgary Stampeders, 36-21; Argos under new ownership of LA Kings owner Bruce McNall, hockey player Wayne Gretzky and actor John Candy
- Nov 27 Undertaker beats Hulk Hogan to become new WWF champ
- Nov 29 TV show "Roc" has a gay wedding episode - Can't Help Loving that Man
- Dec 3 Hulk Hogan defeats the Undertaker at 'This Tuesday in Texas' at the Freeman Coliseum in San Antonio to become 4-time WWF champion
- Dec 6 "Star Trek VI-Undiscovered Country" premieres
- Dec 17 Soap opera "One Life To Live" airs its 6,000th episode
- Dec 18 DeForest Kelly (Dr McCoy on Star Trek) gets a star in Hollywood
- Dec 28 Ninibeth Beatriz Leal Jiminez, 20, of Venez, crowned 41st Miss World
"A Christmas Carol"
Dec 29 "A Christmas Carol", starring Patrick Stewart, in a one-man show, closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater, NYC, after a limited run of 14 performances
- Dec 29 12th United Negro College Fund "Parade of Stars" telethon, hosted by Lou Rawls airs from Aquarius Theatre in Hollywood, and The Apollo Theatre in Harlem, NYC
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