At A Glance

8 January 1992 at a glance

Day of the week
8 January 1992 was a Wednesday.
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 8 January is Capricorn.
Chinese zodiac
In the Chinese zodiac, 8 January 1992 fell in the Year of the Goat.
Birthstone
The birthstone for January is Garnet.
Moon phase
The moon phase on 8 January 1992 was Waxing Crescent.

On this day: 8 January

  • 1981 A local farmer reports a UFO sighting in Trans-en-Provence, France, claimed to be "perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time".
  • 1982 Breakup of the Bell System: In the United States, AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.
  • 1994 Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He would stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space.
  • 2002 President of the United States George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act.
  • 2004 The RMS Queen Mary 2, then the largest ocean liner ever built, is christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.

Famous people born on January 8

  • Elvis Presley, American singer, guitarist, and actor (1935–1977)
  • David Bowie, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (1947–2016)
  • Stephen Hawking, English physicist and author (1942–2018)
  • Damiano David, Italian singer-songwriter (born 1999)

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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.
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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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