About the day » Wednesday December 9, 1992Calender converter

• Cornelis Arnoldus (Cees) Lek (66), Langeraar, Ter Aar, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Andrew Jackson Kittrell <K 3SSDI-FgmcSCBu>1 fr 5 (77), Walterboro, Colleton County, South Carolina
• Andrew Gibson Lees (75), Warren, Trumbull, Ohio, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelis Arnoldus Lek (66), Ter Aar (Langeraar)
• Constant Adrien VROONEN (66), Hasselt, Provincie Limburg, Flanders, Belgie
• Caroline Margaretha Kummer (98), Pittsburgh Pensylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelis van Nieuwaal (76), Dirksland
• Antonius Koetsier (61), Utrecht
• Cornelis Johannes Goossens (75), Breda, Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Maria Cornelia Verheijen (82), Bergen op Zoom, Noord Brabant, Nederland

• 1987 » Hikaru Nakamura, Japanese-American chess player
• 1987 » Kostas Giannoulis, Greek footballer
• 1987 » Mat Latos, American baseball player
• 1988 » Kwadwo Asamoah, Ghanaian footballer
• 1990 » Denise Hannema, Dutch cricketer
• 1991 » Choi Minho, Korean singer and actor
• 1993 » Laura Smulders, Dutch cyclist
• 1993 » Mark McMorris, Canadian snowboarder
• 1995 » McKayla Maroney, American gymnast
• 1996 » MyKayla Skinner, American gymnast

• 1991 » Berenice Abbott, American photographer (b. 1898)
• 1992 » Vincent Gardenia, American actor (b. 1922)
• 1993 » Danny Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer and manager (b. 1926)
• 1995 » Douglas Corrigan, American pilot (b. 1907)
• 1995 » Toni Cade Bambara, American author and academic (b. 1939)
• 1996 » Alain Poher, French lawyer and politician (b. 1909)
• 1996 » Diana Morgan, Welsh playwright and screenwriter (b. 1908)
• 1996 » Mary Leakey, English archaeologist and anthropologist (b. 1913)
• 1996 » Patty Donahue, American singer-songwriter (b. 1956)
• 1998 » Shaughnessy Cohen, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1948)

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• 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.
• The Netherlands had about 15.1 million citizens.
• February 26 » Nagorno-Karabakh War: Khojaly Massacre: Armenian armed forces open fire on Azeri civilians at a military post outside the town of Khojaly leaving hundreds dead.
• April 27 » Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history.
• May 13 » Li Hongzhi gives the first public lecture on Falun Gong in Changchun, People's Republic of China.
• June 17 » A "joint understanding" agreement on arms reduction is signed by U.S. President George Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin (this would be later codified in START II).
• July 18 » A picture of Les Horribles Cernettes was taken, which became the first ever photo posted to the World Wide Web.
• December 4 » Somali Civil War: President George H. W. Bush orders 28,000 U.S. troops to Somalia in Northeast Africa.

The temperature on December 9, 1992 was between -0.1 °C and 4.5 °C and averaged 2.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.