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October 4, 1992

On October 4, 1992, the Rome General Peace Accords end a 16-year civil war in Mozambique. The year's #1 song was "End of the Road" by Boyz II Men. Deng Linlin, Jack Buchanan, Chaz Mostert would arrive in the same year.

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1992

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1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1992nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 992nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 92nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1990s decade.

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On October 4, 1992

  1. 1992 The Rome General Peace Accords end a 16-year civil war in Mozambique.

    1992 treaty ending the Mozambican Civil War

    The Rome General Peace Accords, officially the General Peace Accords, was a peace treaty signed between the government of Mozambique and RENAMO, ending the Mozambican Civil War on October 4, 1992. Negotiations preceding the agreement began in July 1990. They were brokered by a team of four mediators, two members of the Community of Sant'Egidio, Andrea Riccardi and Matteo Zuppi, as well as Bishop Jaime Gonçalves and Italian government representative Mario Raffaelli.

  2. 1992 El Al Flight 1862 crashes into two apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 39 on the ground.

    1992 aircraft accident in the Netherlands

    On 4 October 1992, El Al Flight 1862, a Boeing 747 cargo aircraft of the Israeli airline El Al, crashed into the Groeneveen and Klein-Kruitberg flats in the Bijlmermeer neighbourhood of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The accident is known in Dutch as the Bijlmerramp. The subsequent health effects in survivors, and eventual revelations of the cargo manifest, showed at least three chemical precursors used in the production the nerve agents sarin and soman.

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Died on October 4, 1992

Denny Hulme New Zealand racing driver (1936–1992)

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Others born in 1992

Deng Linlin 1992– Chinese gymnast
Jack Buchanan 1992– Australian rugby league player
Chaz Mostert 1992– Australian racing driver
Daisy Ridley 1992– English actress
Sinem Dybvad Demir 1992– Danish politician
Chad le Clos 1992– South African swimmer

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