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1992
 
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Algeria is plunged into a brutal civil war between a military junta and Muslim terrorists     
1992
 
    
US author Jane Smiley retells the Lear story in A Thousand Acres       
1992
 
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After years of restoration and re-interpretation the King's State Apartments at Hampton Court reopen in July 1992 See in Google maps   
1992
 
  
Fighting intensifies between Serbs and Croats, Christians and Muslims, for territory within Bosnia-Herzegovina     
1992
 
   
Saw Maung resigns as Burma's dictator and is replaced by Than Shwe (who still heads the junta some 20 years later)      
General Than Shwe, head of state in Burma since 1992


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1992
 
   
Riots follow the acquittal of four Los Angeles policemen charged with assaulting the African American Rodney King      
1992
 
    
Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic encourages ethnic cleansing by paramilitaries in Bosnia       
1992
 
    
A Land Acquisition Act enables Mugabe to purchase land compulsorily, abandoning the 'willing buyer, willing seller' principle agreed at Lancaster House       
1992
 
    
US-born Canadian author Carol Shields' novel The Republic of Love is set in her home town of Winnipeg       
1992
 
   
Yitzhak Rabin returns as prime minister of Israel after the Labour party wins a general election