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Movie history events from 1992

Detective Nick Curran investigates a murder in which the victim is killed exactly as described in the novel "Love Hurts" by Catherine Trammell. (San Francisco, Ca.) (Basic Instinct)

Despite growing up poor and in a rough neighborhood, Tre Styles goes to college and makes something of his life. (Los Angeles) (Boyz n the Hood)

Brassed Off. (Brassed Off)

Dark Blue. (Dark Blue)

Godzilla fights King Ghidorah and destroys Tokyo. (Tokyo) (Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah)

Jacob Kell destroys Connor MacLeod's apartment, killing Connor's friend Rachel and causing Connor to retreat into The Sanctuary. (New York) (Highlander: Endgame)

Jack Starks dies. (The Jacket)

Lethal Weapon 3. (Lethal Weapon 3)

An unconscious CIA agent, Charli Baltimore, washes ashore after being left for dead by Timothy & One-eyed Jack; she would wake two months later, pregnant & having no clue who she is. (New Jersey coast) (The Long Kiss Goodnight)

Strickler's disease first diagnosed. (New York) (Mimic)

Liu Kang defeats Goro and Shang Tsung in Mortal Kombat and saves Earthrealm, for now. (outworld) (Mortal Kombat)

A day-dreaming kid named Barry teams up with Chuck Norris and wins the karate tournament. (Texas) (Sidekicks)

Khan Noonien Singh, the product of genetic engineering and eugenics experiments, assumes dictatorial control over one quarter of the planet Earth, from South Asia to the Middle East. (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan)

Saturday 4th January: Two college students, Robert Gambini & Stan Rothenstein, are arrested for murder; with the aid of Gambini's lawyer cousin, Vincent, the DA would later drop all charges. (Beechum County, Al) (My Cousin Vinny)

Sunday 12th January: HAL 9000, Artificial Intelligence Computer System, becomes operational. (2001: A Space Odyssey)

Sunday 12th January: Good afternoon, gentlemen. I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January 1992. My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. If you'd like to hear it I can sing it for you... (Urbana Illinois) (2001: A Space Odyssey)

Sunday 2nd February: Weatherman Phil Connors kills himself, rescues strangers, steals the groundhog, and eventually seduces his producer boss. (Punxsatawney, PA) (Groundhog Day)

Friday 14th February: Chris Brander sends fellow freshman Jamie Palamino a dozen red roses. (New Jersey) (Just Friends)

Saturday 7th March: Dana Scully and Fox Mulder start work on their first X File (The X-Files Movie)

April: Dante Hicks and Julie Dwyer break-up after Julie's parents catch Dante going down on their daughter. (Clerks)

Wednesday 20th May: Amy Fisher, the so-called "Long Island Lolita," is arrested for shooting Mary Jo Buttafuoco on the front porch of her home. (Massapequa, New York) (Casualties of Love: The Long Island Lolita Story)

Monday 25th May: Jay Leno's first episode as permanent host of "The Tonight Show". (Late Shift, The )

Tuesday 1st September: Harry Potter starts second year at Hogwarts. (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone)

December: Max Shreck backs a recall on the mayoral election, with Oswald Cobblepot as his candidate; their plan is foiled when Batman exposes Cobblepot as the crime boss known as the Penguin. (Gotham City, USA) (Batman Returns)

Friday 4th December: U.S. President George H. Bush orders 28,000 troops to Somalia. (Black Hawk Down)

Saturday 26th December: Jack Starks comes round and realises he must stop his own death within a few days. (The Jacket)


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