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Year
1993 (
Roman numerals) was a
common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993
Gregorian calendar).
The year 1993 marked the
Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003).
Events
January
inaugurated as President of the United States.
- January 7 - The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as President.
- January 9 - Jean-Claude Romand kills his family and tries to burn himself inside his home in France.
- January 14 - The Poland ferry Jan Heweliusz, ship sinks off the coast of Rügen in the Baltic Sea, killing 54 people.
- January 15 - Salvatore Riina, the Mafia boss known as 'The Beast', is arrested in Palermo, Sicily after 23 years as a fugitive.
- January 18 - For the first time, Martin Luther King Day is officially observed in all 50 U.S. states.
- January 19 - International Business Machines announces a $4.97 billion loss for 1992, 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 Iraqi no-fly zones. U.S. 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 - Mir Aimal Kasi fires a rifle and kills 2 employees outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
- January 26 - Václav Havel is elected President of the Czech Republic.
- January 31 - The Buffalo Bills become the first team to lose 3 consecutive Super Bowls as they are defeated by the Dallas Cowboys, 52-17, in Super Bowl XXVII. Michael Jackson performs at the halftime show.
February
.
- February - The U.S. state of Arizona experiences 400% of its ordinary rainfall for the month of February.
- February 5 - U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Family and Medical Leave Act.
- February 8 - General Motors Corporation sues NBC, after Dateline NBC allegedly rigged 2 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 U.S. Attorney General.
- February 12 - James Bulger, 2, disappears from the Strand Shopping Centre in Liverpool – his body is found on a disused railway in Liverpool two days later.
- February 17 - A ferry sinks in Haiti, killing approximately 1,215 out of 1,500 passengers.
- February 22 - Two 11-year-old boys are charged with the murder of Jamie Bulger.
- February 23 - Actor Gary Coleman wins a $1,280,000 lawsuit against his parents.
- February 24 - Yukihiro Matsumoto creates 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 1,000.
- February 28 - Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents raid the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, with a warrant to arrest leader David Koresh on federal firearms violations. Four agents and 5 Davidians die in the raid and a 51-day standoff begins.
March
April
- April - The Kuwaiti government claims to uncover an Iraqi assassination plot against former U.S. 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 Iraqi Intelligence Service.
- April 6 - A nuclear accident occurs at Tomsk 7 in Russia.
- April 6 -The HMS Richmond (F239) is launched by the Royal Navy.
- April 7 - The attack submarine USS Queenfish (SSN-651) is recycled as part of the Ship-Submarine recycling program.
- April 10 -African National Congress activist Chris Hani is assassinated in South Africa.
- April 19- A 51-day stand-off at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, Texas, ends with a fire that kills 76 people, including David Koresh.
- April 22 - In Washington, DC, the Holocaust Memorial Museum is dedicated.
- April 22 - 18-year-old student Stephen Lawrence is stabbed to death in London, England; the attack is believed to have been racially motivated.
- April 22 - The web browser Mosaic (web browser) version 1.0 is released.
- April 23 - The World Health Organization declares tuberculosis a Global Emergency.
- April 27 - All members of the Zambia national football team lose their lives in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon in route to Dakar, Senegal to play a 1994 FIFA World Cup 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF) against Senegal national football team (the most tragic incident to date in African football history).
- April 30 - The World Wide Web is born at CERN.
- April 30 - Tennis star Monica Seles is stabbed in the back by an obsessed fan of rival Steffi Graf at a tournament in Hamburg, Germany.
- April 30 - Virgin Radio (then Virgin 1215) launches in the UK at 12:15 pm
May
June
- June 5 - 24 Pakistani troops in the United Nations are killed in Mogadishu, Somalia
- 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 - The Los Angeles Police Department raids the home of Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss.
- June 9 - The Montreal Canadiens win their 24th (and most recent) Stanley Cup.
- June 11 - Jurassic Park, which now ranks 12th all-time among highest grossing films in Box Office history, debuted into theaters.
- June 14 - Mulitpartyists win a referendum on the future of the one-party system in Malawi.
- June 14 - Tansu Çiller becomes prime minister of Turkey.
- June 18 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq refuses to allow UNSCOM weapons inspectors to install remote-controlled monitoring cameras at 2 missile engine test stands.
- June 20 - Japanese Earthquake: A 7.5 earthquake hits Japan, killing 385 people.
- June 20 - John Paxson's three-point shot in Game 6 of the NBA Finals helps the Chicago Bulls secure a 99-98 win over the Phoenix Suns, and their third consecutive championship.
- June 22 - Japan's New Party Sakigake breaks away from the Liberal Democratic Party (Japan).
- June 22 - A Unabomber bomb injures Charles Epstein in Tiburon, California.
- June 23 - In Manassas, Virginia, Lorena Bobbitt cuts off the penis of her husband John Wayne Bobbitt.
- June 24 - A Unabomber bomb injures computer scientist David Gelernter at 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 3 centuries.
- June 25 - Kim Campbell becomes the 19th and first female Prime Minister of Canada.
- June 25 - Lithuanian litas currency is introduced in Lithuania.
- June 27 - U.S. President Bill Clinton orders a cruise missile attack on Iraqi intelligence headquarters in the Al-Mansur District of 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 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 Hokkaidō, Japan launches a devastating tsunami, killing 202 on the small island of Okushiri, Hokkaido.
- 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 Vince Foster commits suicide in Virginia.
- July 23 - Candelária massacre: Brazilian police officers kill 8 street kids in Rio de Janeiro.
- July 23 - James Jordan, father of basketball superstar Michael Jordan, is murdered in Lumberton, North Carolina.
- July 26 - Asiana Air Flight 733 crashes into Mt. Ungeo in Haenam, South Korea killing 68.
- 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 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 as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
- August 9 - King Albert II of Belgium is sworn into office 9 days after the death of his brother, King Baudouin I of Belgium.
- August 13 - Over 130 die in the collapse of Royal Plaza Hotel at Nakhon Ratchasima in Thailand's worst hotel disaster.
- August 19 - In Norway, Varg Vikernes is arrested and charged with the murder of Øystein Aarseth, of Mayhem. He would a receive a 21 year sentence for this and other crimes he committed which include the burning of the Fantoft stave church outside of Bergen, Norway, the Åsane Church in Bergen, the Storetveit Church in Bergen, the Skjold, Rogaland Church in Vindafjord and the Holmenkollen Chapel in Oslo.
- August 21 - NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Observer orbiter 3 days before the spacecraft is scheduled to enter orbit around Mars.
- August 30 - The Late Show with David Letterman premieres on CBS.
September
leader
Yasser Arafat and Israeli prime minister
Yitzhak Rabin, with US President,
Bill Clinton.
October
November
- November 1 - The Maastricht Treaty takes effect, formally establishing the European Union.
- November 4 - Jean Chrétien becomes the 20th Prime Minister of Canada.
- 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 17 - A teacher and 10 children, all from Hagley RC High School near Birmingham, are killed in M40 Minibus Crash in Warwickshire.
- 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 20 - An Avioimpex Yak 42D crashes into Mount Trojani near Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia. The aircraft was on a flight from Geneva, Switzerland to Skopje, but had been diverted to Ohrid due to poor weather conditions at the Skopje airport. All 8 crew members and 115 of the 116 passengers are killed.
- 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.
- 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 - U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (the Brady Bill) into law.
December
- December 2 - 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, head of the Medellín Cartel, is gunned down in Medellín when police try to arrest him.
- December 7 - Colin Ferguson opens fire with his Ruger 9mm pistol on a Long Island Rail Road train, killing 16 and injuring 29.
- December 7 - Thirty-two member Transitional Executive Committee holds its first meeting in Cape Town, marking the first meeting of an official government body in South Africa with black members.
- December 11 - A block of the Highland Towers collapses near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, killing 148.
- December 11 - Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle wins the election for President of Chile with 58% of the vote.
- December 13 - A U-2 Spyplane crashes on a local training flight at Beale AFB in CA; USAF pilot Captain Richard Schneider is killed.
- December 13 - Canadian Prime Minister Kim Campbell resigns as head of the Conservative Party (Canada) to be succeeded by Jean Charest.
- December 13 - Kazakhstan parliament approves nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and agrees to dismantle more than 100 missiles.
- December 15 - Downing Street Declaration: The United Kingdom commits itself to the search for an answer to the problems of Northern Ireland.
- December 15 - Uruguay Round of GATT talks reach successful conclusion after seven years.
- December 16 - Brazil's Supreme Court rules that former President Fernando Collor de Mello may not hold elected office again until 2000 due to political corruption.
- December 18 - Omar Bongo re-elected as President of Gabon in the country's first ever multiparty elections.
- December 20 - United Nations General Assembly votes unanimously to appoint a UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
- December 22 - Interim South Africa constitution approved by parliament in a 237-45 vote.
- December 29 - Argentina passes a measure allowing President Carlos Saul Menem and all future presidents to run for a second term. It also shortens presidential terms to four years and removes the requirement for the president to be Roman Catholic.
- December 30 - Israel and the Vatican City establish diplomatic relations.
- December 30 - Indian National Congress gains a parliamentary majority in India after the defection of ten Janata Dal party lawmakers.
Undated
Ongoing
Fictional
The following are references to year 1993 in fiction:
- The film Beautiful People (film) is set in this year.
- The film Club le Monde is set in this year.
- The film Eight Below is set in this year due to that being the last year that sled dogs were allowed to work in Antarctica.
Births
For more 1993 births see :Category:1993 births
January-April
- January 11 - Flora Cross, American actress
- January 12 - Aika Mitsui, Japanese singer
- January 18 - Molly Hyde, American actress
- January 19 - Gus Lewis, English actor
- 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 16 - Mike Weinberg, American actor
- February 19 - Victoria Justice, American actress
- February 20 - Oliver Smith (UK politician), UK politician
- February 26 - Taylor Dooley, American actress
- March 4 - Abigail Mavity, American actress
- March 4 - Jenna Boyd, American actress
- March 4 - Alice Jones, English actress
- March 17 - Julia Winter, Swedish actress
- March 28 - Naoki Takeshi, Japanese actor
- April 3 - Dakoda Dowd, American golfer
- April 5 - Nick Price (actor), American actor
- April 14 - Vivien Cardone, American actress
- April 16 - Mirai Nagasu, Japanese-American figure skater
- April 23 - Akrit Jaswal, child physician
May-August
- May 10 - Mirai Shida, Japanese actress
- May 13 - Alexander Montagu, Viscount Mandeville, British noble
- May 13 - William Michael Morgan, American singer
- May 14 - Miranda Cosgrove, American actress
- May 24 - Oliver Davis, American actor
- May 25 - The Dilley sextuplets
- June 7 - Jordan Fry, American actor
- June 9 - Danielle Chuchran, American actress
- June 10 - Hugh Alexander Carnegie, British noble
- June 13 - Irvin Museng, Indonesian footballer
- June 25 - Barney Clark (actor), British actor
- July 9 - Emily Hirst, Canadian actress
- July 26 - Taylor Momsen, American actress
- July 28 - Hannah Lochner, Canadian actress
- July 29 - Ang Ching Hui, Singaporean actress
- July 31 - Christian Byers, Australian actor
- August 2 - Ryan and Kyle Pepi, American twin actors
- August 2 - Hannah Midgley, British actress
- August 3 - Yurina Kumai, Japanese singer and actress
- August 5 - Suzuka Ohgo, Japanese child actress
- August 7 - Francesca Fisher-Eastwood, American actress
- August 11 - Alyson Stoner, American actress and dancer
- August 12 - Imani Hakim, American actress
- August 12 - Ewa Farna, Polish singer
- August 16 - Cameron Monaghan, American actor
- August 20 - Brianna and Brittany McConnell, American twin actors
- August 26 - Keke Palmer, American actress and singer
September-December
- September 1 - Ilona Mitrecey, French singer
- September 3 - Rina Koike, Japanese actress
- September 5 - Gage Golightly, American actress
- September 9 - Charlie Stewart, American actor
- September 12 - Jacob and Zachary Handy, American twin actors
- September 22 - Chase Ellison, American actor
- September 23 - Zach Tyler Eisen, American actor
- October 2 - Tara Lynne Barr, American actress
- October 8 - Angus T. Jones, American actor
- October 14 - Bryan Breeding, American singer
- October 25 - Tori Thompson, American singer and actress
- October 28 - Elliot John Crosby, English tenpin bowler
- October 30 - Brett Kelly, Canadian actor
- November 9 - Maya Ritter, Canadian actress
- November 15 - Saaya Irie, Japanese model, actress and singer
- December 3 - Gian Barbarona, Filipino singer
- December 6 - Elián González, Cuban refugee
- December 8 - AnnaSophia Robb, American actress
- December 10 - Rachel Trachtenburg, American musician
- December 15 - Matthew Koon, English stage actor
- December 20 - Yuna Nishimura, Japanese actor
- December 22 - Aliana Lohan, American actress and singer
- December 22 - Mark Klein (singer), American singer and member of The Boogie Kings
Deaths
January-February
- January 3 - Sean Devereux, English Salesian missionary and aid worker (b. 1965)
- January 6 - Dizzy Gillespie, American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer (b. 1917)
- January 13 - Hugh Walters (author), British juvenile science fiction author (b. 1910)
- January 16 - Jón Páll Sigmarsson, Icelandian strongman (strength athlete)
- January 20 - Audrey Hepburn, Belgian actress (b. 1929)
- January 27 - André the Giant, French professional wrestler (b. 1946), real name: André René Roussimoff
- 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 12 - James Bulger, Kidnapped British boy (b. 1990)
- February 18 - Jacqueline Hill, British actress (b. 1929)
- February 18 - Kerry Von Erich, American 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 - Dino Bravo, Italian-born professional wrestler (b. 1949), real name: Adolfo Bresciano
- March 17 - Helen Hayes, American actress (b. 1900)
- March 20 - Polykarp Kusch, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (b. 1911)
- 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, Indian 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)
- April 17 - Turgut Özal, Turkish president and prime minister (b. 1927)
- April 23 - César Chávez Civil rights activist (b. 1927)
- April 30 - Tommy Caton, English footballer (b. 1962)
May-June
- May 1 - Pierre Bérégovoy, Prime Minister of France (b. 1925)
- May 8 - Avram Davidson, American writer (b. 1923)
- May 14 - Patrick Haemers, Belgian criminal (b. 1953)
- May 27 - Werner Stocker, German actor (b. 1955)
- May 30 - Sun Ra, American jazz musician (b. 1914)
- 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 10 - Les Dawson, British comedian (b. 1931)
- June 13 - Deke Slayton, astronaut (b. 1924)
- June 15 - John Connally, Governor of Texas (b. 1917)
- June 15 - James Hunt, Former British racing driver and commentator in Formula One - Heart Attack. (b. 1947)
- June 19 - William Golding, English writer, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (b. 1911)
- June 22 - Patricia Nixon, First Lady of the United States (b. 1912)
- June 24 - Archie Williams, American athlete (b. 1915)
- June 26 - William H. Riker, American political scientist (b. 1920)
- June 28 - G.G. Allin, American singer and bandleader (b. 1956)
- June 28 - Boris Christoff, Bulgarian bass (b. 1914)
- June 29 - Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican singer (b. 1946)
- June 30 - George McFarland, American actor (b. 1928)
July-September
- July 2 - Fred Gwynne, American actor and comedian, mostly known as Herman Munster from The Munsters (b. 1926)
- July 3 - Don Drysdale, baseball player (b. 1936)
- July 3 - Curly Joe DeRita, American comedian (b. 1909)
- July 13 - Davey Allison, American race car driver (helicopter crash) (b. 1961)
- July 23 - James Jordan, father of basketball star Michael Jordan (b. 1936)
- July 28 - Reggie Lewis, American basketball player (heart ailment) (b. 1965)
- July 31 - Baudouin I, King of Belgium (b. 1930)
- August 3 - Theodore Parker, renowned ornithologist (b. 1953)
- August 6 - Tex Hughson, baseball player (b. 1916)
- August 10 - Øystein Aarseth, Norwegian musician (Mayhem (band)) (b. 1968)
- August 20 - Bernard Delfgaauw, Dutch philosopher (b. 1912)
- September 4 - Hervé Villechaize, French-born actor (b. 1943)
- September 9 - Helen O'Connell, American singer (b. 1920)
- September 11 - Erich Leinsdorf, Austrian conductor (b. 1912)
- September 20 - Erich Hartmann, Worlds highest scoring Fighter Ace (b. 1922)
- September 22 - Maurice Abravanel, Greek-born conductor (b. 1903)
- September 24 - Ian Stuart Donaldson, British musician (b. 1957)
- September 27 - Jimmy Doolittle, American general (b. 1896)
October-December
- October 5 - Jim Holton, Scottish footballer (b. 1951)
- October 11 - Jess Thomas, Ameri
Year 1993 (Roman numerals) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar).
The year 1993 marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003).
Events
January
- January - The U.S. state of Arizona experiences 520% of its ordinary rainfall for the month of January.
- January 1 - The Launch of UK Morning TV Show GMTV.
- January 1 - The Dissolution of Czechoslovakia: Slovakia and the Czech Republic separate in the so-called Velvet Divorce.
- January 1 - At midnight, Carlton Television, Westcountry Television and Meridian Broadcasting. It replaced Television South West, Thames Television and TVS Entertainment plc
- 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).
inaugurated as President of the United States.
- January 7 - The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as President.
- January 9 - Jean-Claude Romand kills his family and tries to burn himself inside his home in France.
- January 14 - The Poland ferry Jan Heweliusz, ship sinks off the coast of Rügen in the Baltic Sea, killing 54 people.
- January 15 - Salvatore Riina, the Mafia boss known as 'The Beast', is arrested in Palermo, Sicily after 23 years as a fugitive.
- January 18 - For the first time, Martin Luther King Day is officially observed in all 50 U.S. states.
- January 19 - International Business Machines announces a $4.97 billion loss for 1992, 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 Iraqi no-fly zones. U.S. 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 - Mir Aimal Kasi fires a rifle and kills 2 employees outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
- January 26 - Václav Havel is elected President of the Czech Republic.
- January 31 - The Buffalo Bills become the first team to lose 3 consecutive Super Bowls as they are defeated by the Dallas Cowboys, 52-17, in Super Bowl XXVII. Michael Jackson performs at the halftime show.
February
.
- February - The U.S. state of Arizona experiences 400% of its ordinary rainfall for the month of February.
- February 5 - U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Family and Medical Leave Act.
- February 8 - General Motors Corporation sues NBC, after Dateline NBC allegedly rigged 2 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 U.S. Attorney General.
- February 12 - James Bulger, 2, disappears from the Strand Shopping Centre in Liverpool – his body is found on a disused railway in Liverpool two days later.
- February 17 - A ferry sinks in Haiti, killing approximately 1,215 out of 1,500 passengers.
- February 22 - Two 11-year-old boys are charged with the murder of Jamie Bulger.
- February 23 - Actor Gary Coleman wins a $1,280,000 lawsuit against his parents.
- February 24 - Yukihiro Matsumoto creates 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 1,000.
- February 28 - Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents raid the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, with a warrant to arrest leader David Koresh on federal firearms violations. Four agents and 5 Davidians die in the raid and a 51-day standoff begins.
March
April
- April - The Kuwaiti government claims to uncover an Iraqi assassination plot against former U.S. 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 Iraqi Intelligence Service.
- April 6 - A nuclear accident occurs at Tomsk 7 in Russia.
- April 6 -The HMS Richmond (F239) is launched by the Royal Navy.
- April 7 - The attack submarine USS Queenfish (SSN-651) is recycled as part of the Ship-Submarine recycling program.
- April 10 -African National Congress activist Chris Hani is assassinated in South Africa.
- April 19- A 51-day stand-off at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, Texas, ends with a fire that kills 76 people, including David Koresh.
- April 22 - In Washington, DC, the Holocaust Memorial Museum is dedicated.
- April 22 - 18-year-old student Stephen Lawrence is stabbed to death in London, England; the attack is believed to have been racially motivated.
- April 22 - The web browser Mosaic (web browser) version 1.0 is released.
- April 23 - The World Health Organization declares tuberculosis a Global Emergency.
- April 27 - All members of the Zambia national football team lose their lives in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon in route to Dakar, Senegal to play a 1994 FIFA World Cup 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF) against Senegal national football team (the most tragic incident to date in African football history).
- April 30 - The World Wide Web is born at CERN.
- April 30 - Tennis star Monica Seles is stabbed in the back by an obsessed fan of rival Steffi Graf at a tournament in Hamburg, Germany.
- April 30 - Virgin Radio (then Virgin 1215) launches in the UK at 12:15 pm
May
June
- June 5 - 24 Pakistani troops in the United Nations are killed in Mogadishu, Somalia
- 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 - The Los Angeles Police Department raids the home of Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss.
- June 9 - The Montreal Canadiens win their 24th (and most recent) Stanley Cup.
- June 11 - Jurassic Park, which now ranks 12th all-time among highest grossing films in Box Office history, debuted into theaters.
- June 14 - Mulitpartyists win a referendum on the future of the one-party system in Malawi.
- June 14 - Tansu Çiller becomes prime minister of Turkey.
- June 18 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq refuses to allow UNSCOM weapons inspectors to install remote-controlled monitoring cameras at 2 missile engine test stands.
- June 20 - Japanese Earthquake: A 7.5 earthquake hits Japan, killing 385 people.
- June 20 - John Paxson's three-point shot in Game 6 of the NBA Finals helps the Chicago Bulls secure a 99-98 win over the Phoenix Suns, and their third consecutive championship.
- June 22 - Japan's New Party Sakigake breaks away from the Liberal Democratic Party (Japan).
- June 22 - A Unabomber bomb injures Charles Epstein in Tiburon, California.
- June 23 - In Manassas, Virginia, Lorena Bobbitt cuts off the penis of her husband John Wayne Bobbitt.
- June 24 - A Unabomber bomb injures computer scientist David Gelernter at 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 3 centuries.
- June 25 - Kim Campbell becomes the 19th and first female Prime Minister of Canada.
- June 25 - Lithuanian litas currency is introduced in Lithuania.
- June 27 - U.S. President Bill Clinton orders a cruise missile attack on Iraqi intelligence headquarters in the Al-Mansur District of 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 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 Hokkaidō, Japan launches a devastating tsunami, killing 202 on the small island of Okushiri, Hokkaido.
- 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 Vince Foster commits suicide in Virginia.
- July 23 - Candelária massacre: Brazilian police officers kill 8 street kids in Rio de Janeiro.
- July 23 - James Jordan, father of basketball superstar Michael Jordan, is murdered in Lumberton, North Carolina.
- July 26 - Asiana Air Flight 733 crashes into Mt. Ungeo in Haenam, South Korea killing 68.
- 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 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 as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
- August 9 - King Albert II of Belgium is sworn into office 9 days after the death of his brother, King Baudouin I of Belgium.
- August 13 - Over 130 die in the collapse of Royal Plaza Hotel at Nakhon Ratchasima in Thailand's worst hotel disaster.
- August 19 - In Norway, Varg Vikernes is arrested and charged with the murder of Øystein Aarseth, of Mayhem. He would a receive a 21 year sentence for this and other crimes he committed which include the burning of the Fantoft stave church outside of Bergen, Norway, the Åsane Church in Bergen, the Storetveit Church in Bergen, the Skjold, Rogaland Church in Vindafjord and the Holmenkollen Chapel in Oslo.
- August 21 - NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Observer orbiter 3 days before the spacecraft is scheduled to enter orbit around Mars.
- August 30 - The Late Show with David Letterman premieres on CBS.
September
leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, with US President, Bill Clinton.
October
- October 3 - A large scale battle erupts between U.S. forces and local militia in Mogadishu, Somalia; 19 Americans and 500 Somalis are killed.
- October 5 - Russian constitutional crisis of 1993: Russian military and security forces clear the White House of Russia Parliament building by force, squashing a mass uprising against President Boris Yeltsin.
- October 6 - After 9 years of playing in the NBA, Michael Jordan, shaken by the death of his father, retires from basketball.
- October 8 - David Miscavige announces the IRS has granted full tax exemption to the Church of Scientology International and affiliated churches and organizations ending the Church's 40-year battle with the IRS and resulting in religious recognition in the United States.
- October 13 - Andreas Papandreou begins his second term as Prime Minister of Greece.
- October 23 - Joe Carter hits only the second World Series winning home run as the Toronto Blue Jays win Game Six of the 1993 World Series to beat the Philadelphia Phillies four games to two.
- October 25 - Canadian federal election, 1993: Jean Chrétien and his Liberal Party of Canada defeat the governing Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.
- October 26 - The Carolina Panthers become the NFL's 29th franchise and the first expansion team since 1976.
- October 31 - Actor River Phoenix dies of a drug overdose outside of the Viper Room in Hollywood.
November
- 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 17 - A teacher and 10 children, all from Hagley RC High School near Birmingham, are killed in M40 Minibus Crash in Warwickshire.
- 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 20 - An Avioimpex Yak 42D crashes into Mount Trojani near Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia. The aircraft was on a flight from Geneva, Switzerland to Skopje, but had been diverted to Ohrid due to poor weather conditions at the Skopje airport. All 8 crew members and 115 of the 116 passengers are killed.
- 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.
- 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 - U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (the Brady Bill) into law.
December
Undated
Ongoing
Fictional
The following are references to year 1993 in fiction:
- The film Beautiful People (film) is set in this year.
- The film Club le Monde is set in this year.
- The film Eight Below is set in this year due to that being the last year that sled dogs were allowed to work in Antarctica.
Births
For more 1993 births see :Category:1993 births
January-April
- January 11 - Flora Cross, American actress
- January 12 - Aika Mitsui, Japanese singer
- January 18 - Molly Hyde, American actress
- January 19 - Gus Lewis, English actor
- 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 16 - Mike Weinberg, American actor
- February 19 - Victoria Justice, American actress
- February 20 - Oliver Smith (UK politician), UK politician
- February 26 - Taylor Dooley, American actress
- March 4 - Abigail Mavity, American actress
- March 4 - Jenna Boyd, American actress
- March 4 - Alice Jones, English actress
- March 17 - Julia Winter, Swedish actress
- March 28 - Naoki Takeshi, Japanese actor
- April 3 - Dakoda Dowd, American golfer
- April 5 - Nick Price (actor), American actor
- April 14 - Vivien Cardone, American actress
- April 16 - Mirai Nagasu, Japanese-American figure skater
- April 23 - Akrit Jaswal, child physician
May-August
- May 10 - Mirai Shida, Japanese actress
- May 13 - Alexander Montagu, Viscount Mandeville, British noble
- May 13 - William Michael Morgan, American singer
- May 14 - Miranda Cosgrove, American actress
- May 24 - Oliver Davis, American actor
- May 25 - The Dilley sextuplets
- June 7 - Jordan Fry, American actor
- June 9 - Danielle Chuchran, American actress
- June 10 - Hugh Alexander Carnegie, British noble
- June 13 - Irvin Museng, Indonesian footballer
- June 25 - Barney Clark (actor), British actor
- July 9 - Emily Hirst, Canadian actress
- July 26 - Taylor Momsen, American actress
- July 28 - Hannah Lochner, Canadian actress
- July 29 - Ang Ching Hui, Singaporean actress
- July 31 - Christian Byers, Australian actor
- August 2 - Ryan and Kyle Pepi, American twin actors
- August 2 - Hannah Midgley, British actress
- August 3 - Yurina Kumai, Japanese singer and actress
- August 5 - Suzuka Ohgo, Japanese child actress
- August 7 - Francesca Fisher-Eastwood, American actress
- August 11 - Alyson Stoner, American actress and dancer
- August 12 - Imani Hakim, American actress
- August 12 - Ewa Farna, Polish singer
- August 16 - Cameron Monaghan, American actor
- August 20 - Brianna and Brittany McConnell, American twin actors
- August 26 - Keke Palmer, American actress and singer
September-December
- September 1 - Ilona Mitrecey, French singer
- September 3 - Rina Koike, Japanese actress
- September 5 - Gage Golightly, American actress
- September 9 - Charlie Stewart, American actor
- September 12 - Jacob and Zachary Handy, American twin actors
- September 22 - Chase Ellison, American actor
- September 23 - Zach Tyler Eisen, American actor
- October 2 - Tara Lynne Barr, American actress
- October 8 - Angus T. Jones, American actor
- October 14 - Bryan Breeding, American singer
- October 25 - Tori Thompson, American singer and actress
- October 28 - Elliot John Crosby, English tenpin bowler
- October 30 - Brett Kelly, Canadian actor
- November 9 - Maya Ritter, Canadian actress
- November 15 - Saaya Irie, Japanese model, actress and singer
- December 3 - Gian Barbarona, Filipino singer
- December 6 - Elián González, Cuban refugee
- December 8 - AnnaSophia Robb, American actress
- December 10 - Rachel Trachtenburg, American musician
- December 15 - Matthew Koon, English stage actor
- December 20 - Yuna Nishimura, Japanese actor
- December 22 - Aliana Lohan, American actress and singer
- December 22 - Mark Klein (singer), American singer and member of The Boogie Kings
Deaths
January-February
- January 3 - Sean Devereux, English Salesian missionary and aid worker (b. 1965)
- January 6 - Dizzy Gillespie, American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer (b. 1917)
- January 13 - Hugh Walters (author), British juvenile science fiction author (b. 1910)
- January 16 - Jón Páll Sigmarsson, Icelandian strongman (strength athlete)
- January 20 - Audrey Hepburn, Belgian actress (b. 1929)
- January 27 - André the Giant, French professional wrestler (b. 1946), real name: André René Roussimoff
- 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 12 - James Bulger, Kidnapped British boy (b. 1990)
- February 18 - Jacqueline Hill, British actress (b. 1929)
- February 18 - Kerry Von Erich, American 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 - Dino Bravo, Italian-born professional wrestler (b. 1949), real name: Adolfo Bresciano
- March 17 - Helen Hayes, American actress (b. 1900)
- March 20 - Polykarp Kusch, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (b. 1911)
- 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, Indian 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)
- April 17 - Turgut Özal, Turkish president and prime minister (b. 1927)
- April 23 - César Chávez Civil rights activist (b. 1927)
- April 30 - Tommy Caton, English footballer (b. 1962)
May-June
- May 1 - Pierre Bérégovoy, Prime Minister of France (b. 1925)
- May 8 - Avram Davidson, American writer (b. 1923)
- May 14 - Patrick Haemers, Belgian criminal (b. 1953)
- May 27 - Werner Stocker, German actor (b. 1955)
- May 30 - Sun Ra, American jazz musician (b. 1914)
- 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 10 - Les Dawson, British comedian (b. 1931)
- June 13 - Deke Slayton, astronaut (b. 1924)
- June 15 - John Connally, Governor of Texas (b. 1917)
- June 15 - James Hunt, Former British racing driver and commentator in Formula One - Heart Attack. (b. 1947)
- June 19 - William Golding, English writer, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (b. 1911)
- June 22 - Patricia Nixon, First Lady of the United States (b. 1912)
- June 24 - Archie Williams, American athlete (b. 1915)
- June 26 - William H. Riker, American political scientist (b. 1920)
- June 28 - G.G. Allin, American singer and bandleader (b. 1956)
- June 28 - Boris Christoff, Bulgarian bass (b. 1914)
- June 29 - Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican singer (b. 1946)
- June 30 - George McFarland, American actor (b. 1928)
July-September
- July 2 - Fred Gwynne, American actor and comedian, mostly known as Herman Munster from The Munsters (b. 1926)
- July 3 - Don Drysdale, baseball player (b. 1936)
- July 3 - Curly Joe DeRita, American comedian (b. 1909)
- July 13 - Davey Allison, American race car driver (helicopter crash) (b. 1961)
- July 23 - James Jordan, father of basketball star Michael Jordan (b. 1936)
- July 28 - Reggie Lewis, American basketball player (heart ailment) (b. 1965)
- July 31 - Baudouin I, King of Belgium (b. 1930)
- August 3 - Theodore Parker, renowned ornithologist (b. 1953)
- August 6 - Tex Hughson, baseball player (b. 1916)
- August 10 - Øystein Aarseth, Norwegian musician (Mayhem (band)) (b. 1968)
- August 20 - Bernard Delfgaauw, Dutch philosopher (b. 1912)
- September 4 - Hervé Villechaize, French-born actor (b. 1943)
- September 9 - Helen O'Connell, American singer (b. 1920)
- September 11 - Erich Leinsdorf, Austrian conductor (b. 1912)
- September 20 - Erich Hartmann, Worlds highest scoring Fighter Ace (b. 1922)
- September 22 - Maurice Abravanel, Greek-born conductor (b. 1903)
- September 24 - Ian Stuart Donaldson, British musician (b. 1957)
- September 27 - Jimmy Doolittle, American general (b. 1896)
October-December
- October 5 - Jim Holton, Scottish footballer (b. 1951)
- October 11 - Jess Thomas, Ameri
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