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January 9, 1992

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Headlines from January 9, 1992

The Freshman Is Home. Bi-zarre!

By Carol Lawson

THE way Miryom Kass describes her life these days, her house has suddenly turned into a gigantic refrigerator, and her mission is to shovel food into it as fast as she can. It is a sure sign that her son, the Freshman, is home for semester break. "The food," Mrs. Kass said with a deep sigh. "And the dishes. You would think he was starving the whole semester." Nothing unusual is going on in the Kass household in Brooklyn; just the upheaval that accompanies a college student's first extended visit home. Many have been home since mid-December and are going back to school this week and next.

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BUSINESS DIGEST

By Unknown Author

International The U.S. and Japan announced a broad commitment to try to lift the world economy from a looming slowdown by adopting budgetary and interest-rate policies that will promote faster growth. The aim of the new strategy is to focus the domestic policies of the world's two largest economies clearly on expansion rather than on fighting inflation, with the hope that the leading industrial economies of Europe will follow suit. [ Page A1. ]

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PRESIDENT'S PLANS FOR MEDICAL CARE OUTLINED TO A.M.A.

By Robert Pear

President Bush's election-year prescription for the nation's health-care system is likely to include new incentives for people to enroll in prepaid group health plans, tax credits for the purchase of medical insurance and restrictions on medical malpractice lawsuits, the White House chief of staff, Samuel K. Skinner, told doctors this week. Mr. Skinner outlined the Administration's ideas at a White House meeting with top executives of the American Medical Association on Tuesday afternoon, as he sampled the doctors' reaction to major proposals being drafted by the Administration for submission to Congress later this month.

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Brothers Held In Man's Death In Brooklyn

By David Gonzalez

A sticker reading "We Go to Sunday School" adorns the scuffed metal door of the housing project apartment where Daniel Velasquez, 13 years old, and his brother Carlos, 15, live with their family. But last Sunday, according to the police, the teen-age brothers were far from their Bronx home at 2 in the morning. In fact, the police said, they were in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, robbing a Soviet immigrant couple before firing a single shot to the husband's head that left him dead on the pavement.

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Fast Food Fills Menu For Many Hotel Chains

By Edwin McDowell

Guests who feel the urge for pizza at many Marriott hotels now find their call for room service answered with a Pizza Hut pizza, made in the Marriott kitchen. At the Day's Inn in downtown Atlanta, guests can satisfy their craving for a hamburger merely by stepping through a lobby door into the adjoining Wendy's.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 8, 1992, covering January 9, 1992.

1
Nevermind
Nirvana
Last week
6
Peak
1
Weeks
14
2
Ropin' The Wind
Garth Brooks
Last week
2
Peak
1
Weeks
16
3
Too Legit To Quit
M.C. Hammer
Last week
3
Peak
2
Weeks
9
4
Achtung Baby
U2
Last week
7
Peak
1
Weeks
6
5
Dangerous
Michael Jackson
Last week
1
Peak
1
Weeks
5

Notable Births

1992Jack Campbell, American ice hockey player^[†]

Jack Campbell is an American professional ice hockey goaltender for the Grand Rapids Griffins of the American Hockey League (AHL) while under contract to the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League (NHL). Prior to his professional career, Campbell played for the Windsor Spitfires and Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds of the Ontario Hockey League. He was selected in the first round by the Dallas Stars in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft and made his NHL debut in 2013. After spending several years in the minors, Campbell was traded to the Los Angeles Kings, serving as the team's backup before joining the Toronto Maple Leafs in 2020, where he emerged as an effective starting netminder and was named an NHL All-Star in 2022. He left Toronto after the 2021–22 season to sign with the Edmonton Oilers. Performing poorly with the Oilers, he was waived by the team in November 2023 and assigned to their AHL affiliate, the Condors, before being bought out at the end of the season.

1992Terrence Jones, American basketball player^[†]

Terrence Alexander Jones is an American professional basketball player who last played for Piratas de Quebradillas of the Baloncesto Superior Nacional (BSN). He played college basketball for the Kentucky Wildcats.

1992Joseph Parker, Samoan heavyweight boxer^[†]

Joseph Dennis Parker, OM is a New Zealand professional boxer. He has held the World Boxing Organization (WBO) interim heavyweight title since 2024. Previously, he held the WBO heavyweight title from 2016 to 2018. At regional level, he has held multiple heavyweight championships, including the WBO Oriental, Africa, and Oceania titles; as well as the PABA, OPBF, and New Zealand titles. As an amateur, he represented New Zealand at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in the super-heavyweight division, and narrowly missed qualification for the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Notable Deaths

1992Steve Brodie, American actor (born 1919)^[†]

Steve Brodie was an American stage, film, and television actor from El Dorado in Butler County in south central Kansas. He reportedly adopted his screen name in memory of Steve Brodie, a daredevil who claimed to have jumped from the Brooklyn Bridge in 1886 and survived.

1992Bill Naughton, English playwright and screenwriter (born 1910)^[†]

William John Francis Naughton was an Irish-born British playwright and author, best known for his play Alfie.

Historical Events

1992The Assembly of the Serb People in Bosnia and Herzegovina proclaims the creation of Republika Srpska, a new state within Yugoslavia.^[†]

The People's Assembly of Republika Srpska is the legislative body of Republika Srpska, one of two entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The current assembly is the ninth since the founding of the entity.

1992The first discoveries of extrasolar planets are announced by astronomers Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail. They discovered two planets orbiting the pulsar PSR 1257+12.^[†]

An exoplanet or extrasolar planet is a planet outside the Solar System. The first confirmed detection of an exoplanet was in 1992 around a pulsar, and the first detection around a main-sequence star was in 1995. A different planet, first detected in 1988, was confirmed in 2003. In 2016, it was recognized that the first possible evidence of an exoplanet had been noted in 1917. As of 5 June 2025, there are 5,917 confirmed exoplanets in 4,413 planetary systems, with 994 systems having more than one planet. In collaboration with ground-based and other space-based observatories the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is expected to give more insight into exoplanet traits, such as their composition, environmental conditions, and potential for life.

Historical Context for January 9, 1992

In 1992, the world population was approximately 5,505,989,816 people^[†]

Headlines from January 9, 1992

The Freshman Is Home. Bi-zarre!

BUSINESS DIGEST

PRESIDENT'S PLANS FOR MEDICAL CARE OUTLINED TO A.M.A.

Brothers Held In Man's Death In Brooklyn

Fast Food Fills Menu For Many Hotel Chains

Nevermind

Ropin' The Wind

Too Legit To Quit

Achtung Baby

Dangerous

Notable Births

Notable Deaths

Historical Events

Historical Context for January 9, 1992