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Events from the year 1992 in the United Kingdom.
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- 9 January - Alison Halford, Britain's most senior policewoman, is suspended from duty for a second time following a police authority meeting.
- 6 February - The Queen celebrates her Ruby Jubilee.
- 7 February - signature of the Maastricht Treaty. [1]
- 23 January Euan Bonnar, the to-be president of Earth is born!
- 20 February - The Football Association launches the new Premier League which will begin in August, at the start of the next football season. Its founder members will be the teams finishing in the top 19 of this season's Football League First Division as well as the Second Division champions, runners-up and playoff winners. [1]
- March 19- Buckingham Palace announces that Duke and Duchess of York are to separate after six years of marriage.
- March 24- The editors of Punch, Britain's oldest satirical magazine, announce that the magazine will be discontinued due to massive losses. It has been in circulation since 1841.
- March 25- Aldershot Football Club, bottom of the Football League, go out of business after a two-year financial crisis that saw them unable to pay off hundreds of thousands of pounds of debts.
- March 26- Television entertainer Roy Castle, 59, announces that he is suffering from lung cancer.
- April 9- United Kingdom general election, 1992- The Conservative Party (UK) under Prime Minister John Major are re-elected for a 4th term.
- April 12- Neil Kinnock resigns as leader of the Labour Party following the defeat of his party in the General Election.
- April 19 - The British entertainment industry mourns the deaths of two of its most successful entertainers - Frankie Howerd and Benny Hill.
- April 27- Betty Boothroyd is elected as Speaker of the House of Commons, the first woman to hold the position.
- May - 22 "Maastricht Rebels" vote against the government the second reading of the European Communities (Amendment) Bill.
- May 22 - Stephen Owen is cleared of attempted murder at Maidstone Crown Court, six months after shooting the man who had caused his son's death in a drink-fuelled road accident.
- June 16- Diana: Her True Story, a controversial new book about the Princess of Wales is published. Revelations in the book include Diana's five suicide attempts in the last 10 years, and that Prince Charles had resumed an affair with his former girlfriend Camilla Parker-Bowles shortly after Prince William's birth in 1982.
- June 30- Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher takes her place in the House of Lords as Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven.
- July 2 - The IRA admits to murdering three men whose bodies were found by the army at various locations around Armagh last night. The men are believed to have been informers employed by MI5.
- August 15 - The first Premier League football matches are played. Brian Deane of Sheffield United is the scorer of the first Premier League goal. Meanwhile, financially-troubled Division Three side Maidstone United have their first game of the season cancelled and are given 48 hours to guarantee that they will be able to fulfill this season's fixtures.
- August 17 - Maidstone United resign from the Football League after the club's directors gave up hope of being able to fulfill this season's fixtures.
- August 20- Intimate photographs of the Duchess of York and a Texan businessman, John Bryan, are published in the Daily Mirror.
- September 16- Black Wednesday- The government suspendeds Britain's membership of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism following a wave of speculation against the Pound.
- September 24 - David Mellor resigns as Heritage Minister amid tabloid press speculation that he had been conducting an adulterous affair with actress Antonia de Sancha
- October 13- The government announces the closure of a third of Britain's deep coal mines, with the loss of 31,000 jobs.
- November 11 - The Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.
- November 19 - The High Court rules that doctors can disconnect feeding tubes from Tony Bland, 21, a man who has been in a coma since the Hillsborough disaster more than three years ago. Mr Bland, of Liverpool, suffered massive brain damage in the disaster which claimed the lives of 95 people and doctors treating him say that there is no reasonable possibility that he could recover consciousness.
- November 20- Fire breaks out in Windsor Castle, badly damaging the castle and causing over £50 million worth of damage.
- November 24 - the Queen describes this year as an Annus Horribilis (horrible year) due to various scandals damaging the image of the Royal Family, as well as the Windsor Castle fire.
- November 26 - The Queen is to be taxed from next year, marking the end of almost 60 tax-free years for the British monarchy.
- December 3 - 62 people are injured by an IRA bomb in Manchester city centre. There are no fatalities.
- December 23 - The Queen's Christmas speech is leaked in The Sun newspaper, 48 hours ahead of its traditional Christmas Day broadcast on television.
- December 25 - British author Monica Dickens, a great granddaughter of Charles Dickens, dies of cancer aged 77.
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