1993
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'''1993''' '''(MCMXCIII)''' is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the ''Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003)''.
January 1 - Czechoslovakia divides. Establishment of independent Slovakia and Czech Republic.
January 3 - In Moscow, George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
January 5 - Washington | Washington State executes Westley Allan Dodd by hanging (the first legal hanging in America since 1965)
January 9 – Jean-Claude Romand kills his family and tries to burn himself with his home in France
January 11 - First edition of WWE RAW|WWF Monday Night RAW appears on the USA Network
January 15 - Salvatore Riina, the Mafia boss known as 'The Beast', is arrested in Sicily after three-decades as a fugitive
January 18 - For the first time, Martin Luther King Day|Martin Luther King Jr. holiday is officially observed in all 50 U.S. state|American states.
January 19
International Business Machines|IBM announces a $4.97 billion loss for 1992 which is the largest single-year corporate loss in United States history
Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq refuses to allow UNSCOM inspectors to use its own aircraft to fly into Iraq, and begins military operations in the demilitarized zone between Iraq and Kuwait, and the northern Iraqi no-fly zones|No-Fly Zone. US forces fire approximately 40 Tomahawk cruise missiles at Baghdad factories linked to Iraq's illegal nuclear weapons program. Iraq then informs UNSCOM that it will be able to resume its flights
January 20 - Bill Clinton succeeds George H. W. Bush as President of the United States of America
January 25
Catherine Callbeck becomes Premier of Prince Edward Island, becoming the first female Premier to be elected in Canada. (Rita Johnston was Canada's first female Premier but was not elected)
Mir Aimal Kasi fires a rifle and kills two employees outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, USA
January 26 - Václav Havel elected President of the Czech Republic
February
February 8 - General Motors sues NBC after ''Dateline NBC'' allegedly rigged two crashes showing that some GM pickups can easily catch fire if hit in certain places. NBC settles the lawsuit the following day.
February 11
Janet Reno is selected by Bill Clinton|President Clinton as US Attorney General.
February 12 - 11-year-old boys Robert Thompson and John Venables kill 2-year-old James Bulger in Liverpool.
February 17 - Ferry in Haiti sinks - 285 survivors of maybe 1500 passengers
February 23 - Gary Coleman wins a $1,280,000 lawsuit against his parents.
February 26 - World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a van bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center goes off, killing 6 and injuring over a thousand.
February 28 - Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents raid the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas with a warrant to arrest cult leader David Koresh on federal firearms violations. Four agents and five Davidians die in the raid and a 51-day standoff begins.
March
March - First issue of Wired magazine.
March 4 - Authorities announce the capture of suspected World Trade Center bombing conspirator Mohammad Salameh
March 9 - Rodney King testifies at the federal trial of four Los Angeles, California police officers accused of violating King's civil rights when they beat him during an arrest
March 11 - Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn-in the next day becoming the first female Attorney General of the United States
March 12 - Several bombs explode in Bombay, India killing about 300 and injuring hundreds more. See Bombay bombings (1993)
March 12 - North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea says that it plans to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and refuses to allow inspectors access to nuclear sites
March 13 - The Great Blizzard of 1993 strikes the eastern U.S., bringing record snowfall and other severe weather all the way from Cuba to Québec
March 16 - The Great Blizzard of 1993|blizzard is reported to have killed 184, including many surprised and stranded people along the Appalachian Trail
March 20 - Warrington bomb attacks: Irish Republican Army|IRA bomb explodes in Warrington Town Centre and kills two children, Johnathan Ball and Tim Parry
March 27 - Jiang Zemin becomes President of the People's Republic of China.
March 28 - Gaullists win legislative election in France and Édouard Balladur becomes prime minister of France.
March 31 - A bug in a program written by Richard Depew sends an article to 200 newsgroups simultaneously. The term spamming is coined by Joel Furr to describe the incident.
April
April - The Kuwaiti government claims to uncover an Iraqi assassination plot against former US President George H. W. Bush shortly after his visit to Kuwait. Two Iraqi nationals, caught with smuggled hashish and alcohol inside Kuwait, confess to driving a car-bomb into Kuwait on behalf of the Iraq Secret Service http://www.newyorker.com/archive/content/?020930fr_archive02 April 6 - Russian nuclear accident at Tomsk 7
April 6 - HMS Richmond (F239)|HMS Richmond launched for the Royal Navy
April 7 - Attack submarine USS Queenfish (SSN-651)|ex-Queenfish completes being Ship-Submarine recycling program|recycled
April 10 -African National Congress|ANC activist Chris Hani assassinated in South Africa
April 22 - In Washington, DC, the Holocaust Memorial Museum is dedicated
April 22 - Murder of Stephen Lawrence, London, United Kingdom|UK
April 23 - World Health Organization|WHO declares tuberculosis a Global Emergency
April 24 - Bishopsgate Bomb explodes in the City of London - 1 dead, 50 injured
April 30 - The World Wide Web was born at CERN
May
May 1 - Former prime minister of France Pierre Bérégovoy commits suicide
May 1 - A Tamil Tigers suicide bomber assassinates President Ranasinghe Premadasa of Sri Lanka
May 24 - Eritrean independence
May 27 - A car bomb in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence - 5 dead - Mafia suspected
June
June 6 - Mongolia holds its first direct presidential elections
June 8 - Assassination of Rene Bousquet, the Vichy France police chief, at his Paris home
June 9 – Los Angeles Police Department raids the home of Hollywood Madame Heidi Fleiss
June 9 - Montreal Canadiens win their 24th Stanley Cup
June 14? - Tansu Ciller becomes prime minister of Turkey
June 18 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq refuses to allow UNSCOM weapons inspectors to install remote-controlled monitoring cameras at two missile engine test stands.
June 22 - Japan's New Party Sakigake breaks away from the Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)|Liberal Democratic Party.
June 23 - Lorena Bobbitt cuts off the penis of her husband John Wayne Bobbitt.
July 23 - Candelaria massacre - police shoot number of street kids in Candelaria Church in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
June 8 - In Paris, Christian Didier breaks into the home of Rene Bousquet, banker and former Vichy France administrator and shoots him dead
June 22 - Unabomber bomb injures Charles Epstein in Tiburon, California
June 24 - Unabomber bomb injures computer scientist David Gelernter in Yale University
June 25 - Kim Campbell becomes Canada's nineteenth and first female Prime Minister of Canada|Prime Minister
June 27 - US President Bill Clinton orders a cruise missile attack on Iraq | Iraqi intelligence headquarters in the Al-Mansur District, Baghdad, in response to the attempted assassination of former U.S. President George H. W. Bush during his visit to Kuwait in mid-April
June 27 - In Bad Kleinen, Germany, GSG-9 troopers arrest terrorists Birgit Hogefeld and Wolfgang Grams
July
July 1 - Gian Luigi Ferry shoots 8 and injures 6 in "Pettit and Martin" law firm in San Francisco, then shoots himself
July 5 - Iraq disarmament crisis: UN inspection teams leave Iraq. Iraq then agrees to UNSCOM demands and the inspection teams return
July 12 - A Richter scale|magnitude 7.8 earthquake off Hokkaido Prefecture|Hokkaido, Japan launches a devastating tsunami, killing 202 on the small island of Okushiri, Hokkaido
July 20 - White House deputy counsel Vincent W. Foster Jr commits suicide in Virginia
July 23 - Candelaria Massacre ? Brazilian police officers kill 8 street kids in Rio de Janeiro
July 29 - The Israeli Supreme Court acquits accused Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk of all charges and he is set free.
July 31 - Windows NT 3.1 has been released with the support of NTFS file system.
August
August 4 - A federal judge sentences Los Angeles Police Department|LAPD officers Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell to 30 months in prison for violating motorist Rodney King's civil rights
August 6 - Louis Freeh is confirmed by the United States Senate to be the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
August 9 - King Albert II of Belgium|Albert II of Belgium is sworn into office nine days after the death of his brother, King Baudouin of Belgium|Baudouin
August 21 - NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Observer orbiter three days before the spacecraft is scheduled to enter orbit around Mars (planet)|Mars
September 13 - PLO leader Yasir Arafat and Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin shake hands in Washington D.C., after signing a peace accord.
September 13 - Norwegian parliamentary election, 1993
September 23 - The IOC selects Sydney, Australia to host the 2000 Summer Olympics.
September 29 - An earthquake centred on Killari, Maharashtra, India kills nearly 10,000 people.
October
Polly Klaas is kidnapped at knifepoint from her home in Petaluma, California. She was later strangled by Richard Allen Davis
October 3 - October 3 1993 Battle of Mogadishu|Large scale battle between US forces and local militia in Mogadishu, Somalia
October 13 - Andreas Papandreou begins his second term as Prime Minister of Greece.
October 25 - Jean Chrétien|Jean Chrétien and his Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal Party defeat the governing Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative Party in the Canadian federal election, 1993|Canadian federal election.
October - Internal Revenue Service of the United States granted full religious recognition and tax exemption to all Church of Scientology|Scientology Churches, missions and social betterment groupshttp://www.religioustolerance.org/scientol1.htm
November
November 1 - The Maastricht Treaty activates, formally establishing the European Union
November 4 - Jean Chrétien becomes Canada's twentieth Prime Minister of Canada|Prime Minister.
November 9 - The ''Stari Most'', or Old Bridge of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, is destroyed by tank fire in the fights between Bosnian Croat and Bosnian Muslim forces.
November 18 - In South Africa, 21 political parties approve a new constitution.
November 20 - Savings and Loan scandal: The United States Senate Ethics Committee issues a stern censure of California senator Alan Cranston for his "dealings" with savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating.
November 24 - In the United Kingdom, 11-year-olds Robert Thompson and Jon Venables are convicted of the child murder of 2-year-old James Bulger of Liverpool (they were sentenced to "indefinite detention")
November 28 - ''The Observer'' reveals a channel of communications has existed between the Irish Republican Army|IRA and the British government, despite the government's persistent denials.
November 30 - US President Bill Clinton signs the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (the Brady Bill) into law
December
December 2 - Shuttle program: STS-61 - NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair an optical flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope.
December 2 - War on Drugs: Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is gunned down in Medellín when the police try to arrest him
December 7 - Colin Ferguson opened fire with his Ruger 9mm pistol on a Long Island Railroad train, killing six and injuring 19. The event was dubbed "The Long Island Railroad Massacre."
December 12 - Earthquake hits Flores, Indonesia - 2200 dead
December 15 - Downing Street Declaration - United Kingdom commits itself to the search for an answer to the problems of Northern Ireland
December 30 - Israel and the Vatican City|Vatican establish diplomatic relations
Unknown dates
The second World Parliament of Religions is held in Chicago, Illinois
US President Bill Clinton sends 6 American warships to Haiti to enforce United Nations trade sanctions against the military-led regime in that country
The Mississippi River|Mississippi and Missouri Rivers flood large portions of the United States|American Midwest.
The Late Show with David Letterman premieres on CBS.
Dominos Pizza Abolishes the 30-minute gaurantee on Pizza Delivery
Births
March 17 - Julia Winter, Swedish actress
April 3 - Dakoda Dowd, American golfer
August 16 - Cameron Monaghan, American actor
December 6 - Elián González, Cuban refugee
December 8 - AnnaSophia Robb, American actress
Deaths
February
February 5 - Joseph L. Mankiewicz, American writer, producer, and director (b. 1909)
February 5 - Tip Tipping, American actor and stuntman (parachuting accident) (b. 1958)
February 6 - Arthur Ashe, American tennis player and activist (b. 1943)
February 11 - Robert W. Holley, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1922)
February 18 - Jacqueline Hill, British actress (b. 1929)
February 20 - Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian automobile manufacturer (b. 1916)
February 24 - Bobby Moore, English footballer (b. 1941)
February 27 - Lillian Gish, American actress (b. 1893)
February 28 - Ruby Keeler, Canadian actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1910)
March
March 8 - Billy Eckstine, American musician (b. 1914)
March 11 - Dino Bravo|Adolph "Dino Bravo" Bresciano, Italian-born professional wrestler (b. 1949)
March 17 - Helen Hayes, American actress (b. 1900)
March 20 - Polykarp Kusch, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
March 24 - John Hersey, American author (b. 1914)
March 31 - Brandon Lee, American actor (b. 1965)
April
April 1 - Alan Kulwicki, American race car driver (b. 1954)
April 3 - Pinky Lee, American children's television host (b. 1907)
April 8 - Marian Anderson, American contralto (b. 1897)
April 13 - Wallace Stegner, American writer (car accident) (b. 1909)
May
May 1 - Pierre Bérégovoy, Prime Minister of France (b. 1925)
May 8 - Avram Davidson, American writer (b. 1923)
May 27 - Werner Stocker, German actor (b. 1955)
June
June 7 - Drazen Petrovic, Croatian basketball player (b. 1964)
June 9 - Alexis Smith, Canadian actress (b. 1921)
June 13 - Deke Slayton, astronaut (b. 1924)
June 15 - John Connally, Governor of Texas (b. 1917)
June 19 - William Golding, English writer, Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
June 24 - Archie Williams, American athlete (b. 1915)
June 26 - William H. Riker, American political scientist (b. 1920)
June 28 - Boris Christoff, Bulgarian opera singer (b. 1914)
June 29 - Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican singer (b. 1946)
June 30 - George McFarland|George "Spanky" McFarland, American actor (b. 1928)
July
July 3 - Don Drysdale, baseball player (b. 1936)
July 13 - Davey Allison, American race car driver (helicopter crash) (b. 1961)
July 28 - Reggie Lewis, American basketball player (heart ailment) (b. 1965)
July 31 - King Baudouin I of Belgium (b. 1930)
August
August 6 - Tex Hughson, baseball player (b. 1916)
August 10 - Øystein Aarseth, Norwegian musician (Mayhem (band)|Mayhem) (b. 1968)
September
September 9 - Helen O'Connell, American singer (b. 1920)
September 11 - Erich Leinsdorf, Austrian conductor (b. 1912)
September 22 - Maurice Abravanel, Greek-born conductor (b. 1903)
September 27 - Jimmy Doolittle, American general (b. 1896)
October
October 11 - Jess Thomas, American tenor (b. 1927)
October 12 - Tofik Bakhramov, Russian footballer (b. 1926)
October 25 - Vincent Price, American actor (b. 1911)
October 31 - Federico Fellini, Italian film director (b. 1911)
October 31 - River Phoenix, American actor (drug overdose) (b. 1970)
November
November 1 - Severo Ochoa, Spanish–born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1905)
November 6 - Michael Vernon, Australian consumer activist (b.1932)
November 12 - H. R. Haldeman, American Watergate scandal figure (b. 1926)
November 21 - Bill Bixby, American actor (b. 1934)
November 22 - Anthony Burgess, English author (b. 1917)
December
December 1 - Ray Gillen, American singer (b. 1961)
December 2 - Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord (b. 1940)
December 4 - Frank Zappa, American guitarist and composer (b. 1949)
December 7 - Wolfgang Paul, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
December 13 - Vanessa Duriès, French novelist (b. 1972)
December 31 - Zviad Gamsakhurdia, first President of Georgia (b. 1939)
Nobel Prizes
Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics - Russell Alan Hulse, Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry - Kary Mullis, Michael Smith (chemist)|Michael Smith
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Physiology or Medicine - Richard J. Roberts, Philip Allen Sharp
Nobel Prize in literature|Literature - Toni Morrison
Nobel Peace Prize|Peace - Nelson Mandela and Frederik Willem de Klerk
Charles Colson
Arna Mer-Khamis / Care and Learning, ORAP (The Organisation of Rural Associations for Progress) / Sithembiso Nyoni, Vandana Shiva, Mary Dann|Mary and Carrie Dann
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