1993
1993 (
MCMXCIII) was 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
*
January 1 - The
Dissolution of Czechoslovakia. 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 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 inside his home in France.
*
January 14 - The
Polish ferry Jan Heweliusz sinks off the coast of
Rügen in the
Baltic Sea, leaving 54 people dead.
*
January 15 -
Salvatore Riina, the
Mafia boss known as 'The Beast', is arrested in
Palermo,
Sicily after twenty-three-years as a fugitive.
*
January 18 - For the first time,
Martin Luther King Jr. holiday is officially observed in all 50
American states.
*
January 19 -
IBM announces a $4.97 billion loss for
1992 which is the largest single-year corporate loss in
United States history.
*
January 19 -
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
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 the 42nd
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)
*
January 25 -
Mir Aimal Kasi fires a rifle and kills two employees outside
CIA headquarters in
Langley, Virginia.
*
January 26 -
Václav Havel elected President of the
Czech Republic.
*
January 31 - The
Buffalo Bills become the first team to lose three consecutive
Super Bowls, as they are defeated by the
Dallas Cowboys, 52-17, in
Super Bowl XXVII.
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
President Clinton as US Attorney General.
*
February 12 - A pair of 11-year-old boys, Robert Thompson and
John Venables, kill 2-year-old
James Bulger in
Liverpool.
*
February 17 - Ferry in
Haiti sinks - Killing aproximatley 1215 people out of 1500 passengers
*
February 23 -
Gary Coleman wins a $1,280,000
lawsuit against his parents.
*
February 24 -
Yukihiro Matsumoto created the
Ruby programming language*
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 church in
Waco, Texas, with a warrant to arrest the group's 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
blizzard is reported to have killed 184, including many surprised and stranded people along the
Appalachian Trail.
*
March 20 -
Warrington bomb attacks:
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. [
1]
*
April 6 - Russian
nuclear accident at
Tomsk 7.
* April 6 -
HMS Richmond launched for the
Royal Navy.
*
April 7 - Attack submarine
ex-Queenfish is recycled as part of the
Ship-Submarine recycling program.
*
April 10 -
ANC activist
Chris Hani assassinated in
South Africa.
*
April 18-
Joseph Wallace is killed by his mother in their
Chicago apartment.
*
April 19- A 51-day stand-off at the
Branch Davidian building near
Waco,
Texas, ends with a fire that kills seventy-six people, including
David Koresh.
*
April 22 - In
Washington, DC, the
Holocaust Memorial Museum is dedicated.
*
April 22 - Murder of
Stephen Lawrence,
London,
UK.
*
April 23 -
WHO declares
tuberculosis a Global Emergency.
*
April 24 -
Bishopsgate Bomb explodes in the
City of London - 1 dead, 50 injured.
*
April 27 - All the members of the
Zambia national football team lost their lives in a planecrash off Libreville, Gabon in route to
Dakar,
Senegal to play a qualifiying match against to Senegal to
1994 FIFA World Cup. To date is the most tragic incident in the African football history.
*
April 30 - The
World Wide Web was born at
CERNMay
*
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 - In
Paris,
Christian Didier breaks into the home of
Rene Bousquet, banker and former
Vichy France administrator and shoots him dead.
*
June 9 -
Los Angeles Police Department raids the home of Hollywood madam
Heidi Fleiss.
*
June 9 -
Montreal Canadiens win their 24th
Stanley Cup.
*
June 14 - Mulitpartyists win referendum on the future of the one-party system in
Malawi.
*
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.
*
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 22 -
Unabomber bomb injures Charles Epstein in
Tiburon, California.
*
June 24 -
Unabomber bomb injures computer scientist David Gelernter in
Yale University.
*
June 24 -
Andrew Wiles wins worldwide fame after presenting his solution for Fermat's Last Theorem, a problem that has been unsolved for more than three centuries.
*
June 25 -
Kim Campbell becomes
Canada's nineteenth and first female
Prime Minister.
*
June 27 - US President
Bill Clinton orders a cruise missile attack on
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
magnitude 7.8
earthquake off
Hokkaido,
Japan launches a devastating
tsunami, killing 202 on the small island of
Okushiri, Hokkaido*
July 16 - Version 1.00 of the
Slackware GNU/Linux distribution is released.
*
July 19 - U.S. President
Bill Clinton announces his "don't ask, don't tell" policy regarding gays in the American military.
*
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 27 -
Windows NT 3.1, the first version of
Microsoft's line of
Windows NT operating systems, is released to manufacturing.
*
July 29 - The
Israeli Supreme Court acquits accused
Nazi death camp guard
John Demjanjuk of all charges and he is set free.
August
*
August 4 - A federal judge sentences
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 is sworn into office nine days after the death of his brother, King
Baudouin.
*
August 16 - The
Debian GNU/Linux distribution is founded by
Ian Murdock.
*
August 21 -
NASA loses radio contact with the
Mars Observer orbiter three days before the spacecraft is scheduled to enter orbit around
Mars.
*
August 24 -
Ukraine Independence Day.
*
August 30 -
The Late Show with David Letterman premieres on CBS.
September
*
September 4 - The
Essendon Football Club wins its 15th
AFL premiership over arch rivals
Carlton Football Club*
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 -
Late Night with Conan O'Brien premieres on
NBC.
*
September 13 -
Norwegian parliamentary election, 1993*
September 23 - The IOC selects
Sydney,
Australia to be the site of the
2000 Summer Olympics.
*
September 24 -
Nirvana releases
In Utero, their last studio album, and the last before
Kurt Cobain's death
*
September 29 - An
earthquake centred on
Killari,
Maharashtra,
India kills nearly 10,000 people.
October
 |
Tanks bombard the Russian parliament in October 1993 |
*
Polly Klaas is kidnapped at knifepoint from her home in Petaluma, California. She was later strangled by
Richard Allen Davis.
*
October 3 - Large scale battle erupts between US forces and local militia in
Mogadishu, Somalia.
*
October 5 -
Second October Revolution in
Russia*
October 6 - After nine years of playing basketball, shaken by the death of his father (
James Jordan),
Michael Jordan retires from basketball for the first time.
*
October 13 -
Andreas Papandreou begins his second term as
Prime Minister of Greece.
*
October 25 -
Jean Chrétien and his
Liberal Party defeat the governing
Progressive Conservative Party in the
Canadian federal election.
*
October 26 - The
Carolina Panthers become the
NFL's 29th franchise and the first expansion team since 1976.
* October -
Internal Revenue Service of the
United States granted full religious recognition and
tax exemption to all
Church of Scientology missions and social betterment groups.[
2].
November
*
November 1 - The
Maastricht Treaty takes effect, formally establishing the
European Union.
*
November 4 -
Jean Chrétien becomes
Canada's twentieth
Prime Minister.
*
November 9 -
Bosnian Croat forces destroy the
Stari most, or Old Bridge of
Mostar,
Bosnia and Herzegovina, by tank fire.
*
November 11 -
Microsoft releases
Windows 3.11 for Workgroups to manufacturing.
*
November 12 - The inaugural
Ultimate Fighting Championship is held in
Denver, Colorado.
*
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
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
MedellÃn 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 6 and injuring 19. The event was dubbed "The Long Island Railroad Massacre."
*
December 11 - 48 people were killed when a block of the
Highland Towers collapsed near
Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia.
*
December 12 - An
earthquake hits
Flores,
Indonesia, leaving 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 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 and
Missouri Rivers flood large portions of the
American Midwest.
*
January 18 -
Morgan York, American actress
*
January 26 -
Cameron Bright, Canadian actor
*
January 30 -
Christina Kirkman, American actress
*
February 7 -
David Dorfman, American actor
*
February 9 -
Parimarjan Negi, chess prodigy from India
*
February 19 -
Victoria Justice, American actress
*
February 26 -
Taylor Dooley, American actress
*
March 4 -
Jenna Boyd, American actress
*
March 17 -
Julia Winter, Swedish actress
*
March 28 -
Naoki Takeshi, Japanese actor
*
May 24 -
Oliver Davis, American actor
*
May 25 - The
Dilley sextuplets*
June 4 -
Christian Mowatt, British noble
*
June 7 -
Jordan Fry, American actor
*
June 9 -
Danielle Chuchran, American actress
*
June 10 -
Hugh Alexander Carnegie, British noble
*
June 25 -
Barney Clark, British actor
*
July 26 -
Taylor Momsen, American actress
*
August 2 -
Ryan and Kyle Pepi, American twin actors
*
August 11 -
Alyson Stoner, American actress and dancer
*
August 16 -
Cameron Monaghan, American actor
*
September 1 -
Ilona Mitrecey, French singer
*
September 9 -
Charlie Stewart, American actor
*
September 12 -
Jacob and Zachary Handy, American twin actors
*
October 8 -
Angus T. Jones, American actor
*
October 19 -
Henry Mountbatten, Earl of Medina, British noble
*
December 6 -
Elián González, Cuban refugee
*
December 8 -
AnnaSophia Robb, American actress
January-February
*
January 3 -
Dizzy Gillespie, creator of be-bop and Afro-Cuban jazz (b.
1917)
*
January 20 -
Audrey Hepburn, famous Anglo-Dutch actress, fashion model and humanitarian (b.
1929)
*
January 27 -
André the Giant Roussimoff, French professional wrestler (b.
1946)
*
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 18 -
Kerry Von Erich, professional wrestler (suicide) (b.
1960)
*
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-April
*
March 8 -
Billy Eckstine, American musician (b.
1914)
*
March 11 -
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 laureate (b.
1911)
*
March 22 -
Curtis Taylor, a student who was bullied for three years (suicide) (b.
1978)
*
March 24 -
John Hersey, American author (b.
1914)
*
March 31 -
Brandon Lee, American actor (b.
1965)
*
April 1 -
Alan Kulwicki, American race car driver (b.
1954)
*
April 3 -
Pinky Lee, American children's television host (b.
1907)
*
April 5 -
Divya Bharti,
Bollywood film actress (b.
1974)
*
April 8 -
Marian Anderson, American contralto (b.
1897)
*
April 13 -
Wallace Stegner, American writer (car accident) (b.
1909)
*
April 15 -
Robert Westall, British author (b.
1929)
May-June
*
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 5 -
Conway Twitty, Country music singer (b.
1933)
*
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 laureate (b.
1911)
*
June 24 -
Archie Williams, American athlete (b.
1915)
*
June 26 -
William H. Riker, American political scientist (b.
1920)
*
June 28 -
G.G. Allin, Punk rock singer and bandleader for a plethora of groups (b.
1956)
*
June 28 -
Boris Christoff, Bulgarian opera singer (b.
1914)
*
June 29 -
Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican singer (b.
1946)
*
June 30 -
George "Spanky" McFarland, American actor (b.
1928)
July-September
*
July 3 -
Don Drysdale, baseball player (b.
1936)
*
July 3 -
Curly Joe DeRita, American comedian and sixth and final member of the
Three Stooges (b.
1909)
*
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 6 -
Tex Hughson, baseball player (b.
1916)
*
August 10 -
Øystein Aarseth, Norwegian musician (
Mayhem) (b.
1968)
*
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-December
*
October 5 -
Jim Holton, Scottish footballer (b.
1951)
*
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 25 -
Danny Chan,
Hong Kong singer (b.
1958)
*
October 31 -
Federico Fellini, Italian film director (b.
1911)
*
October 31 -
River Phoenix, American actor (drug overdose) (b.
1970)
*
November 1 -
Severo Ochoa, Spanishâ€"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 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.
1940)
*
December 5 -
Doug Hopkins, American guitarist and songwriter (b.
1961)
*
December 7 -
Wolfgang Paul, German physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1913)
*
December 9 -
Danny Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer and football manager (b.
1926)
*
December 13 -
Vanessa Duriès, French novelist (b.
1972)
*
December 29 -
Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Soviet Armenian actor (b.
1930)
*
December 31 -
Zviad Gamsakhurdia, first
President of Georgia (b.
1939)
Unknown dates
* Charles M. Manson Jr, the son of
Charles Manson, commits suicide at age 38
*
Physics -
Russell Alan Hulse,
Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.*
Chemistry -
Kary Mullis,
Michael Smith*
Physiology or Medicine -
Richard J. Roberts,
Philip Allen Sharp*
Literature -
Toni Morrison*
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 and
Carrie Dannzh-yue:1993å¹´
