15 things that happened in 1992 besides me being born

Just felt appropriate for my 1992nd post.

1. "George H. W. Bush is televised falling violently ill at a state dinner in Japan, vomiting into the lap of Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa and fainting."
2. "Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia will stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons."
3. "A court in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, sentences serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer to life in prison."
4. "USS Missouri (BB-63), the last active U.S. Navy battleship, is decommissioned at Long Beach, California."
5. "The Chicago Flood occurs, causing approximately $2 billion in damages to the city (equivalent to $4.12 billion in 2022)"
6. "The Twenty-seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution is enacted."
7. "Jay Leno becomes the new host of NBC's The Tonight Show, following the retirement of Johnny Carson."
8. "Kentucky celebrates its bicentennial statehood."
   
9. "The Goosebumps series of children's horror fiction, penned by R. L. Stine, is first published."
10. "Bill Clinton announces his selection of Al Gore as his running mate in the 1992 U.S. presidential election."
11. "The largest shopping mall in the U.S., Minnesota's Mall of America, constructed on 78 acres (316,000 m2), opens in Bloomington."
12. "Dr. Mae Jemison becomes the first African American woman to travel into space, aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour."
13. "After performing a song protesting alleged child abuse by the Catholic Church, Sinéad O'Connor rips up a photo of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live, causing huge controversy, leading the switchboards at NBC to ring off the hook."
14. "Aladdin, is released to critical and commercial success. It goes on to become the highest-grossing film of the year and (at the time) the highest-grossing animated film of all time"
15. "Hip hop producer and rapper Dr. Dre releases his solo debut studio album The Chronic, which sparks the beginning of the mainstream popularity and success of Gangsta Rap, G-Funk and West Coast Hip-Hop in the United States"

*All quotes from "1992 in the United States," on Wikipedia.

(Prompt by me)

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