Unix Timestamp: 695952000
Tuesday, January 21. 1992, 12:00:00 AM UTC

Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia will stop targeting cities of the United States and her allies with Nuclear Weapons. In return George H. W. Bush announces that the United States and her allies will stop targeting Russia and the remaining communist states with Nuclear Weapons.

In El Salvador, an army colonel and a lieutenant of the Atlacatl Battalion are each sentenced to 30 years in prison for the 1989 murder of six Jesuit priests and their housekeepers.

China and Israel establish diplomatic relations.

Macy's files for bankruptcy.

Rebel forces occupy Zaire's national radio station in Kinshasa and broadcast a demand for the government's resignation.

"STS-42": Dr. Roberta Bondar becomes the first Canadian woman in space, aboard Space Shuttle "Discovery".

Nagorno-Karabakh War: in the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, fighting between Armenians and Azeris leaves at least 60 people dead.

Faced with decreased military spending, United Technologies Corporation announces it will eliminate 13,900 jobs by 1993.

In Mauritania, security forces open fire on opponents of President of MauritaniaMaaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya, killing at least five people.