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1993




Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial
Discrimination (1993-2003)

Events

   * January 1 - Czechoslovakia divides. Establishment of Slovak Republic
     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.
   * January 19 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq refuses to allow UNSCOM
     inspectors to use its own aircraft to fly into Iraq, and begins
     military operations in the demilitarized zone between Iraq and Kuwait,
     and the northern No-Fly Zone. US forces fire approximately 40 Tomahawk
     cruise missiles at Baghdad factorys 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 - A gunman kills two employees outside CIA headquarters in
     Langley, Virginia
   * January 26 - Vaclav 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.
   * February 11 - Janet Reno is selected by President Clinton as US
     Attorney General.
   * 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 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.
   * March 12 - North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea says that
     it plans to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and
     refuses to allow inspectors access to nuclear sites.
   * March 13 - The Great Blizzard of 1993 strikes the eastern U.S.,
     bringing record snowfall and other severe weather all the way from Cuba
     to Quˇbec.
   * 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 legislativeelection in France
   * March 28 - Balladur becomes prime minister of France
   * March 29 - Catherine Callbeck becomes Premier of Prince Edward Island,
     becoming the first female Premier in Canada.
   * April - Iraqi president Saddam Hussein orders the assassination of
     George H. W. Bush, while the former US President is visiting Kuwait.
     Kuwaiti and US forces stop the attempt.
   * April 6 - Russian nuclear accident at Tomsk 7.
   * April 22 - In Washington, DC, the Holocaust Memorial Museum is
     dedicated.
   * May 1 former prime minister of France Pierre Bˇrˇgovoy commits suicide
   * May 24 - Eritrean independence.
   * 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 25 - Kim Campbell becomes Canada's nineteenth 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 in Kuwait, in May.
   * July 5 - Iraq disarmament crisis: UN inspection teams leave Iraq. Iraq
     then agrees to UNSCOM demands and the inspection teams return
   * July 29 - The Israeli Supreme Court acquits accused Nazi death camp
     guard John Demjanjuk of all charges and he is set free.
   * 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
   * November 4 - Jean Chrˇtien becomes Canada's twentieth Prime Minister.
   * The second World Parliament of Religions is held in Chicago
   * December 30 - Israel and the Vatican establish diplomatic relations.
   * US President Bill Clinton orders air strikes in Iraq when the country
     refuses to accept the No-Fly Zone.
   * 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 River floods large portions of the
     American Midwest.
   * ATF raids the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. The Branch
     Davidians refuse to leave the compound for several weeks. The compound
     eventually catches on fire killing most of the cult members, including
     leader David Koresh.

Art, Culture & Fashion

   * 1993 in film
        o Schindler's List, directed by Steven Spielberg
        o Jurassic Park
        o The Fugitive starring Harrison Ford
        o The Piano
        o Philadelphia starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington
        o Sleepless in Seattle starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan
   * 1993 in literature
   * 1993 in music
   * February 11 - Howard Stern's radio show begins transmitting to
     Rochester NY
   * 1993 in sports
        o January 31 - Super Bowl XXVII Dallas Cowboys (52) def. Buffalo
          Bills (17)
        o March 5 - Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson is banned from
          international competition for life after testing positive for
          banned substances for the second time.
        o Michael Jordon retires from Basketball to play minor league
          baseball. (He would later return to basketball in 1994.)
   * 1993 in television
        o August 19 - The television sitcom, Cheers ends an 11-year run on
          NBC (the show debuted on September 30, 1982).
        o The Late Show with David Letterman premieres on CBS
        o Beavis and Butthead begins airing on MTV.

Deaths

   * January 6 - Rudolf Nureyev, Russian ballet dancer
   * January 6 - Dizzy Gillespie, American jazz trumpeter
   * January 15 - Sammy Cahn, songwriter
   * January 20 - Audrey Hepburn, actress
   * January 22 - Abe Kobo, writer
   * January 23 - Thomas Dorsey, gospel music singer
   * January 24 - Thurgood Marshall, United States Supreme Court justice
   * January 26 - Jeanne Sauvˇ, Governor-General of Canada
   * January 27 - Andrˇ the Giant, wrestler, actor
   * February 5 - Joseph L. Mankiewicz, writer, producer, director
   * February 6 - Arthur Ashe, tennis star
   * February 6 - Joseph Mankiewicz, director, producer, writer
   * February 7 - Lillian Gish, actress [DELETE]
   * February 11 - George A Stephen, inventor.
   * February 11 - Joy Garrett, actress.
   * 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 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 Bˇrˇgovoy,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
   * June 26 - William H. Riker, political scientist
   * June 30 - George "Spanky" McFarland, actor
   * July 28 - Reggie Lewis, basketball player, Boston Celtics
   * July 31 - Baudouin, king of Belgium
   * September 27 - Jimmy Doolittle American World War II General.
   * October 31 - Federico Fellini, Italian film director
   * November 12 - H. R. Haldeman, central figure in the Watergate scandal
   * November 21 - Bill Bixby, television actor
   * December 4 - Frank Zappa, American rock musician

   * Oksana Kostina, Russian gymnast.

Nobel Prizes

   * Physics - Russell A. Hulse, Joseph H. 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

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