At A Glance
18 January 1992 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 18 January 1992 was a Saturday.
- Billboard Hot 100 No. 1
- The Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 was “Black or White” by Michael Jackson.
- Top Film of 1992
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 1992 was Aladdin.
- Bestselling Novel of 1992
- “Dolores Claiborne” by Stephen King was No. 1 on Publishers Weekly's US fiction list for 1992.
- Top-Rated TV Show
- “60 Minutes” (CBS) was No. 1 in the Nielsen ratings for the 1992–93 season.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 18 January is Capricorn.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 18 January 1992 fell in the Year of the Goat.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for January is Garnet.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 18 January 1992 was Waxing Gibbous.
On this day: 18 January
- 1981 Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield parachute off a Houston skyscraper, becoming the first two people to BASE jump from objects in all four categories: buildings, antennae, spans (bridges), and earth (cliffs).
- 1983 The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals to his family.
- 1990 Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.
- 1993 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is officially observed for the first time in all 50 US states.
- 2002 The Sierra Leone Civil War is declared over.
Famous people born on January 18
- Pep Guardiola, Spanish footballer and manager (born 1971)
- Kevin Costner, American actor, director, and producer (born 1955)
- Dave Bautista, American wrestler, mixed martial artist, and actor (born 1969)
- Karim Adeyemi, German footballer (born 2002)
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Events of 1992 in the United States
A selection from Wikipedia's '1992 in the United States'. Not a complete list.
- March 30 – The 64th Academy Awards, hosted by Billy Crystal, are held at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, with Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs winning five awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. Barry Levinson's Bugsy leads the nominations with ten.
- April 6 – Barney & Friends debuts on PBS.
- August 11 – The largest shopping mall in the U.S., Minnesota's Mall of America, constructed on 78 acres (316,000 m2), opens in Bloomington.
Life in the US in 1992
President
George H. W. Bush
Gas (per gallon)
$1.13
Loaf of Bread
$0.83
Average House
$121,500
Weekly Wage
$434
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