Video: 'Batman Returns' trailer
(Tuesday, June 16, 1992) — Batman Returns, a superhero film based on the DC Comics character Batman and a sequel to 1989’s Batman, premiered tonight in Hollywood.
Directed by Tim Burton, the film starred Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Michelle Pfeiffer and Christopher Walken.
(Monday, June 15, 1992) — Vice President Dan Quayle, relying on a faulty flash card, erroneously instructed Trenton, New Jersey, sixth-grade student William Figueroa to spell “potato” as “potatoe” during a spelling bee today.
Video: 'The Inner Light' (clip)
(Monday, June 1, 1992, 10 p.m. EDT) — Picard is struck by an energy beam from an alien probe, which renders him unconscious and places him in the life of a citizen on the planet Kataan, with his memory of the Enterprise intact on tonight’s episode of the science fiction TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Video: 'The "Today" Show Talks with New "Tonight" Show Host, Jay Leno - May, 1992!'
(Monday, May 25, 1992, 11:35 p.m.-12:35 a.m. EDT) — Comedian Jay Leno made his debut tonight as host of NBC’s Tonight Show, succeeding Johnny Carson. Leno’s first guest was actor, comedian Billy Crystal.
(Saturday, May 23, 1992, 12:00 a.m. EDT) — Ex-Beatle Ringo Starr appeared on tonight’s ABC In Concert on ABC-TV, rehearsing for an upcoming tour with his All-Starr band at S.I.R. Studios in Los Angeles.
Video: 'Weight Of The World'
(Friday, May 22, 1992) — Time Takes Time, the tenth studio album by ex-Beatle Ringo Starr, was released today, his first studio album since 1983. Continue reading Starr released ‘Time Takes Time’ album 20 years ago today (1992)
(Thursday, May 21, 1992, 11:35 p.m.-12:35 a.m. EDT) — Johnny Carson hosted the final regular edition (with guests in front of a studio audience) of “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson,” featuring Robin Williams and Bette Midler, who slowly sang the pop standard “One for My Baby (and One More for the Road).” Continue reading Midler serenades Carson on final ‘Tonight Show’ 20 years ago this hour (1992)
Video: Dan Quayle 'Murphy Brown' comment
(Tuesday, May 19, 1992) — U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle sparked controversy by criticizing the CBS-TV sitcom Murphy Brown today for having its title character decide to bear a child out of wedlock, saying during a speech to the Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco that it mocked the importance of fathers.
Video: Mary Jo Buttafuoco interview (2008)
(Tuesday, May 19, 1992) — Mary Jo Buttafuoco was shot in the face and seriously wounded today at her home in Massapequa, New York, by her husband Joey’s teenage lover, Amy Fisher, soon to be known as “the Long Island Lolita” by the media in a case that drew much notoriety.
Video: Alec Baldwin reads the 27th Amendment
(Tuesday, May 19, 1992) — The Twenty-seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohibits Congress from giving itself pay raises until the next congressional term, went into effect today.
