1993
This article is about the year 1993. For the number (and other uses), see
1993 (number).
1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year that started on a Friday. In the Gregorian calendar, it was the 1993rd year in the Common Era, or of Anno Domini; the 993rd year of the 2nd millennium; the 93rd year of the 20th century; and the 4th of the 1990s.
Events
January
- January 5
- The state of Washington executes Westley Allan Dodd by hanging (the first legal hanging in America since 1965).
- $7.4 million USD is stolen from Brinks Armored Car Depot in Rochester, New York in the 5th largest robbery in U.S. history. Four men, Samuel Millar, Father Patrick Moloney, former Rochester Police officer Thomas O'Connor, and Charles McCormick, all of whom have ties to the Provisional Irish Republican Army, are accused.
- M/V Braer, a Liberian oil tanker, runs aground off the Scottish island of Mainland, causing a massive oil spill.
- January 6 – Douglas Hurd is the first high-ranking British official to visit Argentina since the Falklands War.
- January 6–January 20 – The Bombay Riots take place in the city now known as Mumbai.
- January 7 – The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated, with Jerry Rawlings as president.
- January 11 – WWF Monday Night Raw premieres on the USA Network and continues to this day.
- January 14 – The Polish ferry M/S Jan Heweliusz 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 19
- Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) signed.
- IBM announces a $4.97 billion loss for 1992, the largest single-year corporate loss in United States history to date.
- 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.
- January 20 – Legendary actress Audrey Hepburn dies at the age of 63.
- January 24 – In Turkey, thousands protest the murder of journalist Uğur Mumcu.
- January 25
- January 26 – Václav Havel is elected President of the Czech Republic.
- January 31 – Super Bowl XXVII: The Buffalo Bills become the first team to lose 3 consecutive Super Bowls as they are defeated by the Dallas Cowboys, 52–17.
February
- February 4 – Members of the right-wing Austrian FPÖ split to form the Liberal Forum in protest against the increasing nationalistic bent of the party.
- February 5 – Belgium becomes a federal monarchy rather than a unitary kingdom.
- 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 10
- February 11 – Janet Reno is selected by President Clinton as Attorney General of the United States.
- February 12 – Two year old James Bulger is abducted, tortured and murdered by two 10 year old boys, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson. Both are later charged. See Murder of James Bulger.
- February 14
- February 17 – A ferry sinks in Haiti, killing approximately 1,215 out of 1,500 passengers.
- February 22 – UN Security Council Resolution 808 is voted on, deciding that "an international tribunal shall be established" to prosecute violations of international law in Yugoslavia. The tribunal will is established on May 25 by Resolution 827.
- February 24 – Prime Minister of Canada Brian Mulroney resigns amidst political and economic turmoil. Kim Campbell, his successor, becomes Canada's first female Prime Minister.
- February 26 – World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a van bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, 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
- March 4 – Authorities announce the capture of suspected World Trade Center bombing conspirator Mohammad Salameh.
- March 5 – Macedonian Palair Flight 305, a F-100 on a flight to Zurich, crashes shortly after take-off from Skopje killing 83 of the 97 on board.
- March 9 – Rodney King testifies at the federal trial of 4 Los Angeles, California police officers accused of violating his 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
- March 13–March 15 – The Great Blizzard of 1993 strikes the eastern U.S., bringing record snowfall and other severe weather all the way from Cuba to Quebec; it reportedly kills 184.
- March 13 – Australian federal election, 1993: The Australian Labor Party stays in power despite poor economic results.
- March 17 – The PKK announces a unilateral ceasefire in Iraq.
- March 20 – Warrington bomb attacks: An IRA bomb explodes in Warrington Town Centre and kills 2 children, Jonathan Ball and Tim Parry.
- March 22 – The Intel Corporation ships the first P5 Pentium chips.
- March 24
- March 27
- March 28 – French legislative election, 1993: Gaullists win a majority and Édouard Balladur becomes Prime Minister.
- March 29 – The 65th Academy Awards, hosted by Billy Crystal, are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California, with Unforgiven winning Best Picture.
April
May
June
July
- July 2 – An integrist mob sets fire to the hotel where The Satanic Verses translator Aziz Nesin resides in Sivas, Turkey, killing 37.
- July 5 – Iraq disarmament crisis: UN inspection teams leave Iraq. Iraq then agrees to UNSCOM demands and the inspection teams return.
- July 7–July 9 – The 19th G7 summit is held in Tokyo, Japan.
- July 7 – Hurricane Calvin lands in Mexico. It is the second Pacific hurricane on record to land in Mexico in July, and kills 34.
- July 12 – A magnitude 7.8 earthquake off Hokkaidō, Japan launches a devastating tsunami that kills 202 on the small island of Okushiri, Hokkaido.
- July 16–July 17 – In Estonia, the majority Russian cities of Narva and Sillamäe organize illegal referendums on "territorial autonomy" to protest new citizenship laws.
- July 19
- Japanese general election, 1993: The loss of majority of the Liberal Democratic Party results in a coalition taking power.
- U.S. President Bill Clinton announces his 'Don't ask, don't tell' policy regarding gays in the American military.
- Arif Mustofa was born in Blitar
- 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 26
- 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.
- July 31 – King Baudouin I of Belgium dies.
August
September
October
- October 3 – U.S. Army conducts Operation Gothic Serpent in the city of Mogadishu, Somalia using Task Force Ranger. Two UH-60 Blackhawks are shot down and the operation leaves over 1000 Somalians dead and over 73 Americans WIA, 19 KIA, and 1 captured. Also known as the Battle of Mogadishu.
- October 4 – The Russian constitutional crisis culminates with Russian military and security forces clearing the White House of Russia Parliament building by force, quashing a mass uprising against President Boris Yeltsin.
- October 5
- October 10 – 292 are killed when the South Korean ferry Seohae capsizes off Pusan, South Korea.
- October 11–October 28 – The UNMIH is prevented from entering Haiti. On October 18, economic sanctions (abolished in August) are reinstated.
- October 13
- October 19 – Benazir Bhutto becomes the first elected woman to lead a post-colonial Muslim state, in Pakistan.
- October 21 – A coup in Burundi results in the death of president Melchior Ndadaye and sparks the Burundi Civil War.
- October 25 – Canadian federal election, 1993: Jean Chrétien and his Liberal Party defeat the governing Progressive Conservative Party, which falls to an historic low of 2 seats.
- October 30 – Greysteel massacre: Three members of the UDA, a loyalist paramilitary group, attacked a crowded bar in Greysteel, Northern Ireland with firearms, killing eight civilians and wounding thirteen. The bar was targeted because it was in an Irish nationalist and Catholic area.
November
December
Date unknown
Births
January-March
- January 1 – Aaryn Doyle, Canadian actress and singer
- January 4 – Scott Redding, English Grand Prix motorcycle racer
- January 9 – Ashley Argota, American actress
- January 12
- January 18 – Morgan York, American actress
- January 26 – Cameron Bright, Canadian actor
- January 29 – Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, Japanese Model, Blogger, and Recording Artist
- February 6 – Tinashe, American actress and singer
- February 7 – David Dorfman, American actor
- February 9 – Parimarjan Negi, Chess prodigy from India
- February 12 – Jennifer Stone, American actress
- February 14 – Shane Harper, American actor and singer
- February 16 – Mike Weinberg, American former child actor
- February 17
- February 19 – Victoria Justice, American actress and singer
- February 23 – Kasumi Ishikawa, Japanese table tennis player
- February 26 – Taylor Dooley, American actress
- March 15 – Alyssa Reid, Canadian singer/songwriter
- March 24 – Grace Cassidy, English Actress
- March 17 – Julia Winter, Swedish-born English actress
April–June
- April 2 – Aaron Kelly, American singer
- April 8 – Jon Kempin, American footballer
- April 14 – Graham Phillips, American actor and singer
- April 15 – Madeleine Martin, American television actress/voice actress
- April 16 – Mirai Nagasu, Japanese-American figure skater
- April 18 – Nathan Sykes, British Singer
- April 25 – Shiloh, Canadian singer-songwriter
- May 9 – Ryosuke Yamada, Japanese actor and singer
- May 10 – Mirai Shida, Japanese actress
- May 12 – Anthony Gale, Member of the Canadian National Sledge Hockey Team
- May 13 – Debby Ryan, American actress
- May 14 – Miranda Cosgrove, American actress and singer
- May 16 – IU, South Korean singer and actress
- May 20 – Caroline Zhang, American figure skater
- June 6 – Frida Gustavsson, Swedish model
- June 7
- June 10 – Scott McLaughlin, New Zealand racer
- June 15 – Kanna Arihara, Japanese singer
- June 22 – Izzy Miller, American musician
- June 26 – Ariana Grande, American actress
July–September
- July 1 – Raini Rodriguez, American actress
- July 5 – Cody Klop, American actor
- July 26
- July 28 – Cher Lloyd, The X Factor (UK) finalist
- August 1 – Leon Thomas III, American actor and singer
- August 3 – Yurina Kumai, Japanese singer
- August 5 – Suzuka Ohgo, Japanese child actress
- August 8 – Ben Breedlove, American Internet personality
- August 11 – Alyson Stoner, American actress and dancer
- August 12 – Ewa Farna, Polish singer
- August 16 – Cameron Monaghan, American actor
- August 17 – Sarah Sjöström, Swedish swimmer
- August 26 – Keke Palmer, American actress and singer
- August 29 – Liam Payne, Member of British-Irish boyband One Direction
- September 1 – Ilona Mitrecey, French singer
- September 9 – Charlie Stewart, American actor
- September 13 – Niall Horan, Member of British-Irish boyband One Direction
October-December
- October 4 – Sam Earle, Canadian actor
- October 8
- October 9 – Scotty McCreery, American singer
- October 20 – David Bolarinwa, British sprinter
- October 29 – India Eisley, American actress
- November 21 – Elena Myers, American racer
- November 30 – Yuri Chinen, Japanese singer and actor
- December 5 – Ross Barkley, English footballer
- December 6 – Elián González, Cuban refugee
- December 7 – Jasmine Villegas, American singer
- December 8 – AnnaSophia Robb, American actress
- December 19 – Corey Snide, American actor and dancer
- December 22 – Aliana Lohan, American actress and singer
Deaths
January
- January 6
- January 15 – Sammy Cahn, American lyricist (b. 1913)
- January 16 – Glenn Corbett, American actor (b. 1930)
- January 18 – Eleanor Burford (Jean Plaidy, Elbur Ford, Kathleen Kellow, Ellalice Tate, Anna Percival, Victoria Holt, Philippa Carr), English writer (b. 1906)
- January 20
- January 21 – Charlie Gehringer, American baseball player (b. 1903)
- January 24
- January 26
- January 27 – André the Giant, French professional wrestler (b. 1946)
February
- February 5
- February 6 – Arthur Ashe, American tennis player and civil activist (b. 1943)
- February 8 – Roland Mousnier, French historian (b. 1907)
- February 9 – Kate Wilkinson, American stage and television actress (b. 1916)
- February 11 – Robert W. Holley, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922)
- February 18 – Kerry Von Erich, American professional wrestler (b. 1960)
- February 20 – Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian automobile manufacturer (b. 1916)
- February 21
- February 23
- February 24 – Bobby Moore, English footballer (b. 1941)
- February 25 – Eddie Constantine, American-born French singer and actor (b. 1917)
- February 26 – Beaumont Newhall, American curator (b. 1908)
- February 27 – Lillian Gish, American actress (b. 1893)
- February 28
March
- March 3 – Albert Sabin, American biologist, developer of the oral polio vaccine (b. 1906)
- March 5 – Cyril Collard, French filmmaker (b. 1957)
- March 8 – Billy Eckstine, American musician (b. 1914)
- March 10 – Dino Bravo, Italian-Canadian pro wrestler (b. 1949)
- March 13 – Ann Way, English actress (b. 1915)
- March 16 – Ralph Fults, last of America's depression-era outlaws. (b. 1910)
- March 17 – Helen Hayes, American actress (b. 1900)
- March 20
- March 24 – John Hersey, American writer and journalist (b. 1914)
- March 27 – Kate Reid, Canadian actress (b. 1930)
- March 30 – Richard Diebenkorn, American painter (b. 1922)
- March 31
April
- April 1 – Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona (b. 1913)
- April 2 – Eugenie Leontovich, Russian-born actress (b. 1900)
- April 3 – Pinky Lee, American comedian (b. 1907)
- April 5 – Divya Bharti, Indian actress (b. 1974)
- April 8 – Marian Anderson, American contralto (b. 1897)
- April 10 – Donald Broadbent, British psychologist (b. 1926)
- April 13 – Wallace Stegner, American writer (b. 1909)
- April 15
- April 17 – Turgut Özal, Turkish president and prime minister (b. 1927)
- April 20 – Cantinflas, Mexican comedian (b. 1911)
- April 23 – César Chávez, Mexican-American civil rights activist (b. 1927)
- April 29
May
June
- June 2 – Tahar Djaout, Algerian writer (b. 1954)
- June 5 – Conway Twitty, American musician (b. 1933)
- June 6 – James Bridges, American screenwriter and director (b. 1936)
- June 7 – Dražen Petrović, Croatian basketball Player (b. 1964)
- June 9 – Alexis Smith, Canadian actress (b. 1921)
- June 11 – Ray Sharkey, American actor (b. 1952)
- June 13
- June 15
- June 16 – Nicanor Zabaleta, Spanish harpist (b. 1907)
- June 19
- June 22 – Pat Nixon, First Lady of the United States (b. 1912)
- June 24 – Archie Williams, American athlete (b. 1915)
- June 26 – Roy Campanella, American baseball player (b. 1921)
- June 28 – GG Allin, American punk singer (b. 1956)
- June 30 – George McFarland, American actor (b. 1928)
July
- July 2
- July 3
- July 4 – Anne Shirley, American actress (b. 1918)
- July 7 – Mia Zapata, American punk musician (b. 1965)
- July 13 – Davey Allison, American stock car driver (b. 1961)
- July 14 – Léo Ferré, French poet and singer-songwriter (b. 1916)
- July 15 – David Brian, American actor (b. 1914)
- July 18 – Jean Negulesco, Romanian-born film director (b. 1900)
- July 23 – James Jordan, father of basketball superstar, Michael Jordan (b. 1936)
- July 24 – Rene Requiestas, Filipino comedian (b. 1957)
- July 25
- July 26 – Matthew Ridgway, United States Army General (b. 1895)
- July 31 – Baudouin of Belgium, reigning King of Belgium (b. 1930)
August
September
October
November
- November 1
- November 3 – Léon Theremin, inventor of the theremin (b. 1896)
- November 6 – Torsten Fenslau, German DJ and record producer (b. 1964)
- November 9 – Joe "Pegleg" Morgan, senior member of La Eme (b. 1929)
- November 10 – Wensley Pithey, South African actor (b. 1914)
- November 12
- November 16 – Achille Zavatta, French circus artist (b. 1915)
- November 18 – Fritz Feld, German actor (b. 1900)
- November 19 – Leonid Gaidai, Soviet comedy director (b. 1923)
- November 20 – Emile Ardolino, American film director (b. 1943)
- November 21 – Bill Bixby, American actor (b. 1934)
- November 22 – Anthony Burgess, English author (b. 1917)
- November 28
- November 29 – J. R. D. Tata, Indian aviator and businessman (b. 1904)
December
- December 2 – Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord (b. 1949)
- December 3 – Lewis Thomas, American physician and essayist (b. 1913)
- December 4 – Frank Zappa, American guitarist and composer (b. 1940)
- December 5
- December 6 – Don Ameche, American actor (b. 1908)
- December 7
- December 13 – József Antall, Hungarian Prime Minister (b. 1932)
- December 14 – Myrna Loy, American actress (b. 1905)
- December 15 – Evelyn Venable, American actress (b. 1913)
- December 16
- December 17
- December 18
- December 22
- December 24 – Norman Vincent Peale, American preacher and writer (b. 1898)
- December 25 – Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist (b. 1899)
- December 28 – William L. Shirer, American journalist and historian (b. 1904)
- December 31
Nobel Prizes
Templeton Prize
References
- Trumbull, Charles P. (ed.) (1994). 1994 Book of the year. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica. ISBN 0-85229-600-2.
- (French) Berani, Jacques (ed.) (1994). Univeralia 1994. Paris: Encyclopædia Universalis. ISBN 2-85229-321-8.
- (French) Harnois, Christiane (dir.) (1994). Le Livre de l'Année 1994. Montreal: Grolier. ISBN 0-7172-3019-8.