1993 is a common year starting on Friday and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003)
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1993 in aviation
1993 in literature
1993 in sports
1993 in television
1993 in Canada
1.1 January
1.4 April-May
1.5 June-July
1.6 August-October
1.7 November-December
2 Year in topic
3 Births
4 Deaths
4.8 January-February
4.9 March-October
4.10 November-December
5 Nobel Prizes
6 Heads of state in 1993
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 state executes Westley Allan Dodd by hanging (the first legal hanging in America since 1965).
January 18 - For the first time, Martin Luther King Jr. holiday is officially observed in all 50 United States states.
January 19 - IBM announces a $4.97 billion loss for 1992 which is the largest single-year corporate loss in United States history.
19 January - 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 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)
January 25 - A gunman kills two employees outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia
January 26 - Václav Havel elected President of the Czech Republic
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 settled the lawsuit the next day.
February 11 - Irina Privalova runs a world indoor record over 60 meters.
11 February - Janet Reno is selected by President Clinton as US Attorney General.
February 12 - British toddler Jamie Bulger killed by two ten-year old boys.
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 23 - Gary Coleman wins a $1,280,000 lawsuit against his parents.
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 six Davidians die in the raid and a 51-day standoff begins.
March 1 - Pet Lamb releases EP Paranoid from the Neck Down
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.
12 March - 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 along the Appalachian Trail.
March 22 - The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586) 64 bits-60 MHz-100+ MIPS.
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-May
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 22 - In Washington, DC, the Holocaust Memorial Museum is dedicated.
April 22 - Murder of Stephen Lawrence, London, UK.
April 22 - Release of version 1.0 of the Mosaic web browser.
May 1 - Former prime minister of France Pierre Bérégovoy commits suicide.
May 24 - Eritrean independence.
June 6 - Mongolia holds its first direct presidential elections.
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.
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 Bush during his visit to Kuwait in mid-April.
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
July 29 - The Israeli Supreme Court acquits accused Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk of all charges and he is set free.
August-October
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.
September 13 - PLO leader Yasir Arafat and Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin shake hands in Washington D.C., after signing a peace accord.
October 3 - 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.
November 1 - The Maastricht Treaty activates, formally establishing the European Union.
November 4 - Jean Chrétien becomes Canada's twentieth Prime Minister.
November 9 - The Stari Most bridge, or Old Bridge of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, is destroyed by tank fire while fighting units of the Republika Srpska.
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 30 - US President Bill Clinton signs the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (the Brady Bill) into law.
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.
December 30 - Israel and the Vatican establish diplomatic relations.
The second World Parliament of Religions is held in Chicago
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.
Year in topic
Schindler's List, directed by Steven Spielberg
The Fugitive starring Harrison Ford
Philadelphia starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington
Sleepless in Seattle starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan
February 11 - Howard Stern's radio show begins transmitting to Rochester NY
January 31 - Super Bowl XXVII Dallas Cowboys (52) def. Buffalo Bills (17)
March 5 - Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson is banned from international competition for life after testing positive for banned substances for the second time.
April 1 - Defending NASCAR Winston Cup champion Alan Kulwicki is killed in a plane crash while on his way to a race in Bristol, Tennessee.
April 30 - During a changeover at a tennis tournament in Hamburg, Germany, Monica Seles is stabbed in the back by a deranged fan of rival Steffi Graf. Seles would not play competitively for more than two years after the incident.
June 7 - Croatian basketball star Drazen Petrovic, emerging as a superstar for the NBA's New Jersey Nets, is killed in an off-season auto accident in Germany.
Michael Jordan retires from Basketball to play minor league baseball. (He would later return to basketball in 1994.)
August 19 - The television sitcom, Cheers ends an 11-year run on NBC (the show debuted on September 30, 1982).
The Late Show with David Letterman premieres on CBS
Beavis and Butt-head begins airing on MTV.
1993 in video games and computing
September 23 - Sonic the Hedgehog CD is released for the Sega Mega-CD in Japan.
November 19 - Sonic CD is released for the Sega CD in North America.
December 10 - Shareware version of DOOM is released for the PC.
October 6 - Demi Garcia, young Tejano singer
January 6 - Dizzy Gillespie, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1917)
January 6 - Rudolf Nureyev, Russian ballet dancer
January 15 - Sammy Cahn, songwriter
January 20 - Audrey Hepburn, actress
January 21 - Charlie Gehringer, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1903)
January 22 - Abe Kobo, writer
January 23 - Thomas Dorsey, gospel music singer
January 24 - Thurgood Marshall, United States Supreme Court justice
January 26 - Jeanne Sauvé, Governor-General of Canada
January 27 - André the Giant, professional wrestler, actor
February 5 - Joseph L. Mankiewicz, writer, producer, director
February 6 - Arthur Ashe, tennis star, social activist
February 6 - Joseph Mankiewicz, director, producer, writer
February 11 - Joy Garrett, actress
February 11 - George A Stephen, inventor
February 12 - James Bulger, murdered British toddler
February 20 - Ferrucio Lamborghini, automobile manufacturer
February 24 - Bobby Moore, English footballer
February 27 - Lillian Gish, actress
February 28 - Ruby Keeler, actress, singer, dancer
March-October
March 8 - Billy Eckstine, jazz musician
March 17 - Helen Hayes, actress
March 24 - John Hersey, author
April 3 - Pinky Lee, children's television host
May 1 - Pierre Bérégovoy, Prime Minister of France
May 8 - Avram Davidson, science fiction writer
June 7 - Drazen Petrovic, basketball star, New Jersey Nets, considered by many Croatia's greatest player ever, Basketball Hall of Famer (b. 1964)
June 13 - Deke Slayton, astronaut (b. 1924)
June 15 - John Connally, Governor of Texas (b. 1917)
June 24 - Archie Williams, American athlete
June 26 - William H. Riker, political scientist
June 29 - Hector Lavoe, salsa music singer
June 30 - George "Spanky" McFarland, actor
July 3 - Don Drysdale, major league baseball pitcher
July 13 - Davey Allison, NASCAR driver
July 28 - Reggie Lewis, basketball player, Boston Celtics
July 31 - Baudouin, king of Belgium
August 10 - Øystein Aarseth, musician
September 27 - Jimmy Doolittle American World War II General.
October 31 - Federico Fellini, Italian film director
October 31 - River Phoenix, actor
November 12 - H. R. Haldeman, central figure in the Watergate scandal
November 21 - Bill Bixby, television actor
November 25 - Anthony Burgess, author
December 2 - Pablo Escobar, drug lord
December 4 - Frank Zappa, American rock musician
December 31 - Zviad Gamsakhurdia, scientist and writer, first President of the Republic of Georgia
December 31 - Oksana Kostina, Russian gymnast.
Physics - Russell Alan Hulse, Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr
Chemistry - Kary Mullis, Michael Smith
Medicine - Richard J. Roberts, Phillip A Sharp
Literature - Toni Morrison
Peace - Nelson Mandela and Frederik Willem de Klerk
Economics - Robert Fogel, Douglas North