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1993
(
MCMXCIII
) was a
common year starting on Friday
of the
Gregorian calendar
, the 1993rd year of the
Common Era
(CE) and
Anno Domini
(AD) designations, the 993rd year of the
2nd millennium
, the 93rd year of the
20th century
, and the 4th year of the
1990s
decade.
Calendar year
1993 was designated as:
- International Year for the World's Indigenous People
The year 1993 in the
Kwajalein Atoll
in the
Marshall Islands
had only 364 days, since its calendar advanced 24 hours to the
Eastern Hemisphere
side of the
International Date Line
, skipping
August 21
, 1993.
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Events
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January
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February
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March
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- March 5
?
Macedonian
Palair
Flight 301
, an
F-100
on a flight to
Zurich
, crashes shortly after take-off from
Skopje
, killing 83 of the 97 on board.
- March 8
? The Moon moves into its nearest point to Earth, called perigee, at the same time as its fullest phase of the Lunar Cycle. The Moon appears to be 14% bigger and 30% brighter than the year's other full moons. The next time these two events coincided was in 2008.
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- 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.
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- March 12
- March 13
?
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 people.
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- March 13
?
1993 Australian federal election
:
Paul Keating
's
Labor
government
is re-elected with an increased majority, defeating the
Liberal
/
National
Coalition
led by
John Hewson
.
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- March 17
? The
Kurdistan Workers' Party
announces a unilateral
ceasefire
in
Iraq
.
- March 24
- March 27
- March 28
?
1993 French legislative election
:
Rally for the Republic
(Gaullist party) wins a majority and
Edouard Balladur
becomes
Prime Minister
.
- March 29
? The
65th Academy Awards
, hosted by
Billy Crystal
, are held at the
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
in
Los Angeles
, with
Unforgiven
winning
Best Picture
.
April
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- April?May ?
1993 Four Corners hantavirus outbreak
: Thirteen people are killed by
Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome
, mainly in the
Southwestern United States
.
- April?October ?
Great Flood of 1993
: The
Mississippi
and
Missouri Rivers
flood large portions of the American Midwest.
- April 8
? The
Republic of Macedonia
is admitted to the
United Nations
.
- April 11
? Four hundred fifty prisoners
rioted
at the
Southern Ohio Correctional Facility
in
Lucasville, Ohio
, and continued to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions, as well as the forced vaccination of
Nation of Islam
prisoners (for
tuberculosis
) against their religious beliefs.
- April 16
?
Bosnian War
: the enclave of
Srebrenica
is declared a UN-protected "safe area".
- April 19
?
Waco siege
: A 51-day stand-off at the Branch Davidian compound near
Waco, Texas
, ends with a fire that kills 76 people, including
David Koresh
.
- April 20
? The
Council for National Academic Awards
, the national degree-awarding authority in the United Kingdom, is officially dissolved.
- April 21
? The Supreme Court in
La Paz
,
Bolivia
, sentences former dictator
Luis Garcia Meza
to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.
- April 23
- April 26
?
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro
appoints
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
Prime Minister of Italy
.
- April 27
- April 30
? Tennis player
Monica Seles
? at this time the top-ranked player in women's tennis ? is stabbed during a match at the
1993 Citizen Cup
in
Hamburg
,
Germany
.
June
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July
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August
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September
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October
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- October 3
?
4
?
Battle of Mogadishu
: The U.S. Army conducts
Operation Gothic Serpent
in the city of
Mogadishu
, Somalia, deploying Task Force Ranger. Two U.S. Army
UH-60 Blackhawks
are shot down and the operation leaves over 1,000 Somalians dead and over 74 Americans wounded in action, 18 killed and 1 captured.
- October 4
? The
Russian constitutional crisis
culminates with Russian military and security forces, using tanks and clearing the
White House of Russia
Parliament building by force, quashing a mass uprising against President
Boris Yeltsin
.
- October 5
? China performs a
nuclear test
, ending a worldwide
de facto
moratorium
.
- October 9
? The South Korean ferry
Seohae
capsizes off
Pusan
, South Korea; 292 are killed.
- October 11
?
28
? The
UNMIH
is prevented from entering
Haiti
by its military-led regime. On
October 18
,
United Nations
economic sanctions (abolished in August) are reinstated. U.S. President Bill Clinton sends 6 American warships to enforce them.
- October 13
- October 19
?
Benazir Bhutto
becomes the Prime Minister of Pakistan for the second time.
- October 21
? A coup in
Burundi
results in the death of president
Melchior Ndadaye
and sparks the
Burundi Civil War
.
- October 25
?
1993 Canadian federal election
:
Jean Chretien
and his
Liberal Party
defeat the governing
Progressive Conservative Party
, which falls to a historic low of two seats.
- October 27
?
31
? The Southland Firestorm, formed of more than fourteen separate fires in Southern California burning simultaneously, burns more than 700 homes and 160,000 acres.
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Two of these fire are the
Laguna Fire
which burned more than 16,000 acres (6,500 hectares), destroyed hundreds of homes and caused $528 million in damage in
Orange County, California
, and the
Kinneloa Fire
in
Los Angeles County, California
which caused a fatality.
November
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December
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Births and deaths
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Nobel Prizes
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References
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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"Nigerian Military Leader Ousts Interim President"
.
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.
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2022
.
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.
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. Retrieved
May 12,
2022
.
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.
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.
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.
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. Retrieved
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2022
.
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. p. A1.
Archived
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. Retrieved
May 15,
2022
.
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.
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. Retrieved
May 15,
2022
.
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.
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2021
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2021
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2021
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"
.
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.
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. Retrieved
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2021
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.
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:
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:
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.
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. Retrieved
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2021
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.
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.
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2021
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.
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