
1993 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)''. {| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
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|} ==Events== ===January=== * 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 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 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 is officially observed in all 50 U.S. state. * January 19 ** International Business Machines 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. 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) ** A gunman kills two employees outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia * 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 as US Attorney General. * February 12 - 11 year old boys Robert Thompson and John Venables kill 2-year-old James Bulger in Liverpool. * 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 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 Blasts (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 - P.m Paul Keating has against the odds win in federal election (a) * 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 is reported to have killed 184, including many surprised and stranded people along the Appalachian Trail * March 20 - Irish_Republican_Army bomb explodes in Warrington Town Centre and kills two children; Jonathan 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) launched for the Royal Navy * April 7 - Attack submarine USS Queenfish (SSN-651) completes being Ship-Submarine recycling program * April 10 -African National Congress 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 * April 23 - World Health Organization 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 suicide bomber assassinates President 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 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). * 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 of Canada * June 27 - US President Bill Clinton orders a cruise missile attack on Iraq 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 ===July=== * 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 7.8 earthquake off Hokkaido Prefecture, 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 ===August=== * August 4 - A federal judge sentences Los Angeles Police Department 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 of Belgium is sworn into office nine days after the death of his brother, King Baudouin of Belgium * August 21 - NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Observer orbiter three days before the spacecraft is scheduled to enter orbit around Mars (planet) ===September=== * 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=== * October 3 - October 3 1993 Battle of Mogadishu between US forces and local militia in Mogadishu, Somalia *October 13 - Andreas Papandreou begins his second term as Prime Minister of Greece. * 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[http://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. * 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 28 - ''The Observer'' reveals a channel of communications has existed between the Irish_Republican_Army 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 police tries 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 establish diplomatic relations ===Unknown Dates=== * 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 River and Missouri Rivers flood large portions of the United States Midwest. ==Year in topic== * 1993 in film **February 12 - ''Groundhog Day (movie)'' starring Bill Murray **June 11 - ''Jurassic Park'', directed by Steven Spielberg **June 18 - ''Last Action Hero'' starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Austin O'Brien **June 25 - ''Sleepless in Seattle'' starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan **August 6 - ''The Fugitive (1993 film)'' starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones **October 8 - ''Demolition Man'' starring Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, and Sandra Bullock **October 22 - ''The Nightmare Before Christmas'' by Tim Burton **October 8 - ''Gettysburg (movie)'' starring Martin Sheen as Robert E. Lee, Tom Berenger as James Longstreet, and Jeff Daniels (actor) as Joshua Chamberlain **November 24 - ''Mrs. Doubtfire'' starring Robin Williams **December 22 - ''Philadelphia (movie)'' starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington **''Schindler's List'', directed by Steven Spielberg **''The Piano'' * 1993 in literature * 1993 in music ** February 11 - Howard Stern's radio show begins transmitting to Rochester NY * 1993 in rail transport ** August 27 - The Green Bay and Western and the Fox River Valley Railroad are merged into a new Wisconsin Central subsidiary, the Fox Valley and Western Railroad. * 1993 in sports ** January 31 - Super Bowl XXVII Dallas Cowboys (52) def. Buffalo Bills (17) **March 5 - Canada athletics Ben Johnson (athlete) is banned from international competition for life after testing positive for banned substances for the second time. **April 1 - Defending NASCAR NASCAR Championship 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 National Basketball Association's New Jersey Nets, is killed in an off-season auto accident in Germany. ** June 9 - The Montreal Canadiens beats the Los Angeles Kings 4 games to 1 to capture their 24th Stanley Cup in their history. ** Michael Jordan retires from Basketball to play minor league baseball. (He would later return to basketball in 1995.) **October 23 - The Toronto Blue Jays defeat the Philadelphia Phillies 8-6 off a Joe Carter walk-off home run to win their second World Series in a row, becoming the first team to accomplish the feat since the 1977-1978 New York Yankees * 1993 in television **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 Butthead'' begins airing on MTV. **''Adventure Kid'' airs. * 1993 in video games and computing ** March 22 - The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586) 64 bits-60 MHz-100+ MIPS. ** April 22 - Release of version 1.0 of the Mosaic (web browser) web browser ** September 23 - Sonic the Hedgehog CD (Mega-CD) is released for the Sega Mega-CD in Japan. ** November 19 - Sonic CD (Sega CD) is released for the Sega CD in North America. ** December 10 - Shareware version of ''Doom'' is released for the Personal computer. ==Births== *August 16 - Cameron Monaghan, actor *December 6 - Elián González, Cuban refugee and cause célèbre ==Deaths== ===January=== * January 6 - Dizzy Gillespie, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1917) * January 6 - Rudolf Nureyev, Russian ballet dancer * January 15 - Sammy Cahn, songwriter * January 17 - Albert Hourani, historian * January 20 - Audrey Hepburn, Belgian actress * January 21 - Charlie Gehringer, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1903) * January 22 - Abe Kobo, writer * January 23 - Thomas Dorsey, singer * January 24 - Thurgood Marshall, Supreme Court of the United States justice * January 26 - Jeanne Sauvé, Governor-General of Canada * January 27 - André the Giant, professional wrestler and actor ===February=== * February 5 - Joseph L. Mankiewicz, writer, producer, director * February 5 - Tip Tipping, United States movie actor, stunt (parachuting accident) (b. 1958) * February 6 - Arthur Ashe, tennis star, social activist * February 12 - James Bulger, murdered United Kingdom toddler * February 20 - Ferrucio Lamborghini, automobile manufacturer * February 24 - Bobby Moore, English football (soccer) * February 27 - Lillian Gish, actress * February 28 - Ruby Keeler, actress, singer, dancer ===March=== * March 8 - Billy Eckstine, jazz musician * March 17 - Helen Hayes, actress * March 24 - John Hersey, author ===April=== * April 1 - Alan Kulwicki, NASCAR driver (b. 1954) * April 3 - Pinky Lee, children's television host * April 8 - Marian Anderson, contralto (b. 1897) ===May=== * May 1 - Pierre Bérégovoy, Prime Minister of France * May 8 - Avram Davidson, science fiction writer ===June=== * June 7 - Drazen Petrovic, 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 (b. 1911) * June 24 - Archie Williams, American athlete * June 26 - William H. Riker, political scientist * June 28 - Boris Christoff, Bulgarian opera singer (b. 1914) * June 29 - Héctor Lavoe, singer * June 30 - George McFarland, actor ===July=== * 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 I of Belgium, king of Belgium ===August=== * August 6 - Tex Hughson, Major League Baseball player (b. 1916) * August 10 - Øystein Aarseth, musician ===September=== * September 9 - Helen O'Connell, Big-band singer (b. 1920) * September 11 - Erich Leinsdorf, Austrian conductor (b. 1912) * September 22 - Maurice Abravanel, Greek-born Swiss conductor (b. 1903) * September 27 - Jimmy Doolittle American World War II general ===October=== * October 11 - Jess Thomas, American tenor (b. 1927) * October 12 - Tofik Bakhramov, the "Russian linesman" of the 1966 World Cup Final * October 25 - Vincent Price, actor * October 31 - Federico Fellini, Italy film director * October 31 - River Phoenix, actor ===November=== * 6 November - Michael Vernon, Australian consumer activist (b.1932) * November 12 - H. R. Haldeman, US central figure in the Watergate scandal * November 21 - Bill Bixby, television actor * November 25 - Anthony Burgess, author ===December=== * December 1 - Ray Gillen, American rock singer (b. 1961) * December 2 - Pablo Escobar, drug lord * December 4 - Frank Zappa, American composer * December 13 - Vanessa Duriès, French novelist * December 31 - Zviad Gamsakhurdia, scientist and writer, first President of the Republic of Georgia * December 31 - Oksana Kostina, Russian gymnast. ==Nobel Prizes== * Nobel Prize in Physics - Russell Alan Hulse, Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. * Nobel Prize in Chemistry - Kary Mullis, Michael Smith (chemist) * Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Richard J. Roberts, Phillip A Sharp * Nobel Prize in literature - Toni Morrison * Nobel Peace Prize - Nelson Mandela and Frederik Willem de Klerk === Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel === * Robert Fogel, Douglas North ==Templeton Prize== * Charles Colson == Right Livelihood Award == * Arna Mer-Khamis / Care and Learning, ORAP (The Organisation of Rural Associations for Progress) / Sithembiso Nyoni, Vandana Shiva, Mary Dann and Carrie Dann 1993 bs:1993 gu:૧૯૯૩ kw:1993 la:1993 sq:1993 simple:1993
had to with draw my work for fear of intellectual fraud and plagiarism ====================================================== == page layout years== There is a discussion on my talk page on page layout. For most of the last three hundred years there is inconsistency and duplication between the year in topic paragraph, the "see also" box and what is on the year by topic pages. Prior to 1950 I am pretty convinced we can painlessly (except for sore fingers) delete all of the year in topic paragraphs and ensure that the material goes into a "see also" box, creating such a box where none exists. Post 1950, particularly from the "year in US television" link a lot of material has been added to this paragraph as highlights (sometimes making up most of the page content pointed at). Personally I think we should still delete the paragraph, keep the box linking to the topic sites and move any particularly important parts of the year in topic paragraph to the main chronological list. This does involve undoing quite a bit of work which someone has done. Therefore, unlike for prior to 1950 (where I've said no objection= I do it) for post 1950 I won't touch these pages unless a significant number of people agree with the change. (I am also unlikely to get the pre 1950 stuff done before summer unless the service speed improves dramatically). user talk:BozMo--User:BozMo 13:42, 7 May 2004 (UTC) == CHARLES MANSON (SONS SUCIDE) == Just wondering, do you think that we should have a section like "major events" at the top, containing a handful of the most important events of the year? User:Braaropolis — User:Braaropolis | User talk:Braaropolis 05:58, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)
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1993 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)''. {| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
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19th century - 20th century - 21st century
|} ==Events== ===January=== * 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 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 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 is officially observed in all 50 U.S. state. * January 19 ** International Business Machines 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. 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) ** A gunman kills two employees outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia * 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 as US Attorney General. * February 12 - 11 year old boys Robert Thompson and John Venables kill 2-year-old James Bulger in Liverpool. * 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 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 Blasts (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 - P.m Paul Keating has against the odds win in federal election (a) * 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 is reported to have killed 184, including many surprised and stranded people along the Appalachian Trail * March 20 - Irish_Republican_Army bomb explodes in Warrington Town Centre and kills two children; Jonathan 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) launched for the Royal Navy * April 7 - Attack submarine USS Queenfish (SSN-651) completes being Ship-Submarine recycling program * April 10 -African National Congress 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 * April 23 - World Health Organization 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 suicide bomber assassinates President 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 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). * 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 of Canada * June 27 - US President Bill Clinton orders a cruise missile attack on Iraq 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 ===July=== * 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 7.8 earthquake off Hokkaido Prefecture, 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 ===August=== * August 4 - A federal judge sentences Los Angeles Police Department 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 of Belgium is sworn into office nine days after the death of his brother, King Baudouin of Belgium * August 21 - NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Observer orbiter three days before the spacecraft is scheduled to enter orbit around Mars (planet) ===September=== * 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=== * October 3 - October 3 1993 Battle of Mogadishu between US forces and local militia in Mogadishu, Somalia *October 13 - Andreas Papandreou begins his second term as Prime Minister of Greece. * 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[http://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. * 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 28 - ''The Observer'' reveals a channel of communications has existed between the Irish_Republican_Army 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 police tries 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 establish diplomatic relations ===Unknown Dates=== * 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 River and Missouri Rivers flood large portions of the United States Midwest. ==Year in topic== * 1993 in film **February 12 - ''Groundhog Day (movie)'' starring Bill Murray **June 11 - ''Jurassic Park'', directed by Steven Spielberg **June 18 - ''Last Action Hero'' starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Austin O'Brien **June 25 - ''Sleepless in Seattle'' starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan **August 6 - ''The Fugitive (1993 film)'' starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones **October 8 - ''Demolition Man'' starring Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, and Sandra Bullock **October 22 - ''The Nightmare Before Christmas'' by Tim Burton **October 8 - ''Gettysburg (movie)'' starring Martin Sheen as Robert E. Lee, Tom Berenger as James Longstreet, and Jeff Daniels (actor) as Joshua Chamberlain **November 24 - ''Mrs. Doubtfire'' starring Robin Williams **December 22 - ''Philadelphia (movie)'' starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington **''Schindler's List'', directed by Steven Spielberg **''The Piano'' * 1993 in literature * 1993 in music ** February 11 - Howard Stern's radio show begins transmitting to Rochester NY * 1993 in rail transport ** August 27 - The Green Bay and Western and the Fox River Valley Railroad are merged into a new Wisconsin Central subsidiary, the Fox Valley and Western Railroad. * 1993 in sports ** January 31 - Super Bowl XXVII Dallas Cowboys (52) def. Buffalo Bills (17) **March 5 - Canada athletics Ben Johnson (athlete) is banned from international competition for life after testing positive for banned substances for the second time. **April 1 - Defending NASCAR NASCAR Championship 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 National Basketball Association's New Jersey Nets, is killed in an off-season auto accident in Germany. ** June 9 - The Montreal Canadiens beats the Los Angeles Kings 4 games to 1 to capture their 24th Stanley Cup in their history. ** Michael Jordan retires from Basketball to play minor league baseball. (He would later return to basketball in 1995.) **October 23 - The Toronto Blue Jays defeat the Philadelphia Phillies 8-6 off a Joe Carter walk-off home run to win their second World Series in a row, becoming the first team to accomplish the feat since the 1977-1978 New York Yankees * 1993 in television **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 Butthead'' begins airing on MTV. **''Adventure Kid'' airs. * 1993 in video games and computing ** March 22 - The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586) 64 bits-60 MHz-100+ MIPS. ** April 22 - Release of version 1.0 of the Mosaic (web browser) web browser ** September 23 - Sonic the Hedgehog CD (Mega-CD) is released for the Sega Mega-CD in Japan. ** November 19 - Sonic CD (Sega CD) is released for the Sega CD in North America. ** December 10 - Shareware version of ''Doom'' is released for the Personal computer. ==Births== *August 16 - Cameron Monaghan, actor *December 6 - Elián González, Cuban refugee and cause célèbre ==Deaths== ===January=== * January 6 - Dizzy Gillespie, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1917) * January 6 - Rudolf Nureyev, Russian ballet dancer * January 15 - Sammy Cahn, songwriter * January 17 - Albert Hourani, historian * January 20 - Audrey Hepburn, Belgian actress * January 21 - Charlie Gehringer, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1903) * January 22 - Abe Kobo, writer * January 23 - Thomas Dorsey, singer * January 24 - Thurgood Marshall, Supreme Court of the United States justice * January 26 - Jeanne Sauvé, Governor-General of Canada * January 27 - André the Giant, professional wrestler and actor ===February=== * February 5 - Joseph L. Mankiewicz, writer, producer, director * February 5 - Tip Tipping, United States movie actor, stunt (parachuting accident) (b. 1958) * February 6 - Arthur Ashe, tennis star, social activist * February 12 - James Bulger, murdered United Kingdom toddler * February 20 - Ferrucio Lamborghini, automobile manufacturer * February 24 - Bobby Moore, English football (soccer) * February 27 - Lillian Gish, actress * February 28 - Ruby Keeler, actress, singer, dancer ===March=== * March 8 - Billy Eckstine, jazz musician * March 17 - Helen Hayes, actress * March 24 - John Hersey, author ===April=== * April 1 - Alan Kulwicki, NASCAR driver (b. 1954) * April 3 - Pinky Lee, children's television host * April 8 - Marian Anderson, contralto (b. 1897) ===May=== * May 1 - Pierre Bérégovoy, Prime Minister of France * May 8 - Avram Davidson, science fiction writer ===June=== * June 7 - Drazen Petrovic, 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 (b. 1911) * June 24 - Archie Williams, American athlete * June 26 - William H. Riker, political scientist * June 28 - Boris Christoff, Bulgarian opera singer (b. 1914) * June 29 - Héctor Lavoe, singer * June 30 - George McFarland, actor ===July=== * 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 I of Belgium, king of Belgium ===August=== * August 6 - Tex Hughson, Major League Baseball player (b. 1916) * August 10 - Øystein Aarseth, musician ===September=== * September 9 - Helen O'Connell, Big-band singer (b. 1920) * September 11 - Erich Leinsdorf, Austrian conductor (b. 1912) * September 22 - Maurice Abravanel, Greek-born Swiss conductor (b. 1903) * September 27 - Jimmy Doolittle American World War II general ===October=== * October 11 - Jess Thomas, American tenor (b. 1927) * October 12 - Tofik Bakhramov, the "Russian linesman" of the 1966 World Cup Final * October 25 - Vincent Price, actor * October 31 - Federico Fellini, Italy film director * October 31 - River Phoenix, actor ===November=== * 6 November - Michael Vernon, Australian consumer activist (b.1932) * November 12 - H. R. Haldeman, US central figure in the Watergate scandal * November 21 - Bill Bixby, television actor * November 25 - Anthony Burgess, author ===December=== * December 1 - Ray Gillen, American rock singer (b. 1961) * December 2 - Pablo Escobar, drug lord * December 4 - Frank Zappa, American composer * December 13 - Vanessa Duriès, French novelist * December 31 - Zviad Gamsakhurdia, scientist and writer, first President of the Republic of Georgia * December 31 - Oksana Kostina, Russian gymnast. ==Nobel Prizes== * Nobel Prize in Physics - Russell Alan Hulse, Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. * Nobel Prize in Chemistry - Kary Mullis, Michael Smith (chemist) * Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Richard J. Roberts, Phillip A Sharp * Nobel Prize in literature - Toni Morrison * Nobel Peace Prize - Nelson Mandela and Frederik Willem de Klerk === Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel === * Robert Fogel, Douglas North ==Templeton Prize== * Charles Colson == Right Livelihood Award == * Arna Mer-Khamis / Care and Learning, ORAP (The Organisation of Rural Associations for Progress) / Sithembiso Nyoni, Vandana Shiva, Mary Dann and Carrie Dann 1993 bs:1993 gu:૧૯૯૩ kw:1993 la:1993 sq:1993 simple:1993
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had to with draw my work for fear of intellectual fraud and plagiarism ====================================================== == page layout years== There is a discussion on my talk page on page layout. For most of the last three hundred years there is inconsistency and duplication between the year in topic paragraph, the "see also" box and what is on the year by topic pages. Prior to 1950 I am pretty convinced we can painlessly (except for sore fingers) delete all of the year in topic paragraphs and ensure that the material goes into a "see also" box, creating such a box where none exists. Post 1950, particularly from the "year in US television" link a lot of material has been added to this paragraph as highlights (sometimes making up most of the page content pointed at). Personally I think we should still delete the paragraph, keep the box linking to the topic sites and move any particularly important parts of the year in topic paragraph to the main chronological list. This does involve undoing quite a bit of work which someone has done. Therefore, unlike for prior to 1950 (where I've said no objection= I do it) for post 1950 I won't touch these pages unless a significant number of people agree with the change. (I am also unlikely to get the pre 1950 stuff done before summer unless the service speed improves dramatically). user talk:BozMo--User:BozMo 13:42, 7 May 2004 (UTC) == CHARLES MANSON (SONS SUCIDE) == Just wondering, do you think that we should have a section like "major events" at the top, containing a handful of the most important events of the year? User:Braaropolis — User:Braaropolis | User talk:Braaropolis 05:58, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)
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