Unix Timestamp: 722822400
Friday, November 27. 1992, 12:00:00 AM UTC

UN Security Council Resolution 794 is unanimously passed, approving a coalition of United Nations peacekeepers led by the United States to form UNITAF, tasked with ensuring humanitarian aid gets distributed and establishing peace in Somalia.

The trial of 14 South Vietnamese accused of murdering 24 North Vietnamese begins in Hong Kong (ends November 29, 1994).

The Greek oil tanker "Aegean Sea", carrying 80,000 tonnes of crude oil, runs aground in a storm while on approach to La Coruña, Spain, and spills much of its cargo.

Secretary-General of the United NationsBoutros Boutros-Ghali encourages the United Nations Security Council to pass United Nations Security Council Resolution 794, authorizing military intervention in the Somali Civil War to allow emergency food supplies to reach the people of Somalia. The Council passes the resolution on December 3, and United Staets Marines begin arriving in Somalia on December 9.

The government of Venezuela announces that it has put down a coup attempt by a group of army officers who bombed the presidential palace.