January 1 » Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
February 20 » The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.
May 3 » The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
August 5 » Peter O'Connor sets the first IAAF recognised long jump world record of 24ft 11.75in (7.6137m), a record that would stand for 20 years.
September 6 » Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist, shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
November 18 » Britain and the United States sign the Hay–Pauncefote Treaty, which nullifies the Clayton–Bulwer Treaty and withdraws British objections to an American-controlled canal in Panama.
Day of death May 24, 1992
The temperature on May 24, 1992 was between 13.4 °C and 27.7 °C and averaged 21.5 °C. There was 9.8 hours of sunshine (61%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
February 15 » Air Transport International Flight 805 crashes near Toledo Express Airport in Ohio, killing all four people on board.
February 15 » Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is sentenced in Milwaukee to life in prison.
March 17 » Israeli Embassy attack in Buenos Aires: Car bomb attack kills 29 and injures 242.
April 27 » The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, comprising Serbia and Montenegro, is proclaimed.
July 7 » The New York Court of Appeals rules that women have the same right as men to go topless in public.
November 3 » Democratic Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton defeats Republican President George H. W. Bush and Independent candidate Ross Perot in the 1992 U.S. presidential election.
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