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Johnny Carson retired from The Tonight Show.

Incorrect! This event occured in 1992.

Johnny Carson began hosting The Tonight Show in 1962 when he took over for Jack Paar. He hosted the popular television show for 30 years retiring in 1992. Carson’s awards include six Emmy Awards, a George Foster Peabody Award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the Kennedy Center Honors.

Pope John Paul II issued an apology, and lifted the edict of the Inquisition against Galileo Galilei.

Incorrect! This event occured in 1992.

In 1979, Pope John Paul II declared that the Roman Catholic Church may have been mistaken in condemning 17th century astronomer Galileo for his scientific theories about a sun-centered universe. Thirteen years later in 1992, the Pope publicly endorsed the church commission’s finding that the church had indeed made a mistake.

In England, fire broke out in the Private Chapel room of Windsor Castle.

Incorrect! This event occured in 1992.

The 1992 fire raged for 15 hours, and seriously damaged the northwest side of the building. Four days later on November 24, 1992, Queen Elizabeth II described 1992 as an Annus Horribilis (horrible year). In addition to the Windsor Castle fire, various scandals damaged the image of the Royal Family.

The first Space Shuttle servicing mission to the Hubble Telescope took place.

CORRECT! This event did not occur in 1992.

The servicing mission (STS-61) in December 1993 was the first in a series of planned visits to the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope. The mission's most important objective was to install two devices to fix Hubble's vision problem.