Important Historical Events of the year 1993, Year 1993 in History
List of 1993 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1993
What happened in the year 1993?
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| January 1, 1993 | Dissolution of Czechoslovakia: Czechoslovakia is divided into the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic. |
| January 2, 1993 | Sri Lankan Civil War: The Sri Lanka Navy kill 35–100 civilians on the Jaffna Lagoon. |
| January 3, 1993 | In Moscow, Russia, George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START). |
| January 5, 1993 | The oil tanker MV Braer runs aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands, spilling 84,700 tons of crude oil. |
| January 6, 1993 | Indian Border Security Force units kill 55 Kashmiri civilians in Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir, in revenge after militants ambushed a BSF patrol. |
| January 6, 1993 | Four people are killed when Lufthansa CityLine Flight 5634 crashes on approach to Charles de Gaulle Airport in Roissy-en-France, France. |
| January 7, 1993 | The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as president. |
| January 7, 1993 | Bosnian War: The Bosnian Army executes a surprise attack at the village of Kravica in Srebrenica. |
| January 13, 1993 | Space Shuttle program: Endeavour heads for space for the third time as STS-54 launches from the Kennedy Space Center. |
| January 13, 1993 | The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) is signed. |
| January 13, 1993 | Operation Southern Watch: U.S.A.F., U.S.N., R.A.F. and French Air Force jets attack AAA and SAM sites in Southern Iraq. |
| January 14, 1993 | In Poland's worst peacetime maritime disaster, ferry MS Jan Heweliusz sinks off the coast of Rügen, drowning 55 passengers and crew; nine crew-members are saved. |
| January 18, 1993 | Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is officially observed for the first time in all 50 US states. |
| January 19, 1993 | Czech Republic and Slovakia join the United Nations. |
| January 25, 1993 | Five people are shot outside the CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Two are killed and three wounded. |
| February 8, 1993 | General Motors sues NBC after Dateline NBC allegedly rigs two crashes intended to demonstrate that some GM pickups can easily catch fire if hit in certain places. NBC settles the lawsuit the next day. |
| February 8, 1993 | An Iran Air Tours Tupolev Tu-154 and an Iranian Air Force Sukhoi Su-24 collide in mid-air near Qods, Iran, killing all 133 people on board both aircraft. |
| February 12, 1993 | Two-year-old James Bulger is abducted from New Strand Shopping Centre by two ten-year-old boys, who later torture and murder him. |
| February 26, 1993 | World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a truck bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, killing six and injuring over a thousand people. |
| February 28, 1993 | The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents raid the Branch Davidian church in Waco, Texas with a warrant to arrest the group's leader David Koresh. Four ATF agents and six Davidians die in the initial raid, starting a 51-day standoff. |
| March 5, 1993 | Palair Macedonian Airlines Flight 301 crashes at Skopje International Airport in Petrovec, North Macedonia, killing 83. |
| March 7, 1993 | The tugboat Thomas Hebert sank off the coast of New Jersey, USA. |
| March 12, 1993 | Several bombs explode in Mumbai, India, killing about 300 people and injuring hundreds more. |
| March 12, 1993 | North Korea announces that it will withdraw from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and refuses to allow inspectors access to its nuclear sites. |
| March 13, 1993 | The 1993 Storm of the Century affects the eastern United States, dropping feet of snow in many areas. |
| March 20, 1993 | The Troubles: A Provisional IRA bomb kills two children in Warrington, England. It leads to mass protests in both Britain and Ireland. |
| March 22, 1993 | The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path. |
| March 24, 1993 | Comet Shoemaker |
| March 27, 1993 | Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People's Republic of China. |
| March 27, 1993 | Italian former minister and Christian Democracy leader Giulio Andreotti is accused of mafia allegiance by the tribunal of Palermo. |
| March 29, 1993 | Catherine Callbeck becomes premier of Prince Edward Island and the first woman to be elected in a general election as premier of a Canadian province. |
| March 31, 1993 | The Macao Basic Law is adopted by the Eighth National People's Congress of China to take effect December 20, 1999. Resumption by China of the Exercise of Sovereignty over Macao |
| April 3, 1993 | The outcome of the Grand National horse race is declared void for the first (and only) time |
| April 8, 1993 | The Republic of North Macedonia joins the United Nations. |
| April 8, 1993 | The Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on mission STS-56. |
| April 11, 1993 | 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 19, 1993 | The 51-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian building in Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Seventy-six Davidians, including eighteen children under the age of ten, died in the fire. |
| April 21, 1993 | The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis García Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution. |
| April 22, 1993 | Eighteen-year-old Stephen Lawrence is murdered in a racially motivated attack while waiting for a bus in Well Hall, Eltham. |
| April 23, 1993 | Eritreans vote overwhelmingly for independence from Ethiopia in a United Nations-monitored referendum. |
| April 23, 1993 | Sri Lankan politician Lalith Athulathmudali is assassinated while addressing a gathering, approximately four weeks ahead of the Provincial Council elections for the Western Province. |
| April 24, 1993 | An IRA bomb devastates the Bishopsgate area of London. |
| April 26, 1993 | The Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on mission STS-55 to conduct experiments aboard the Spacelab module. |
| April 27, 1993 | Most of the Zambia national football team lose their lives in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon en route to Dakar, Senegal to play a 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Senegal. |
| April 30, 1993 | CERN announces World Wide Web protocols will be free. |
| May 10, 1993 | In Thailand, a fire at the Kader Toy Factory kills over 200 workers. |
| May 18, 1993 | Riots in Nørrebro, Copenhagen, caused by the approval of the four Danish exceptions in the Maastricht Treaty referendum. Police open fire against civilians for the first time since World War II and injure 11 demonstrators. |
| May 19, 1993 | SAM Colombia Flight 501 crashes on approach to José María Córdova International Airport in Medellín, Colombia, killing 132. |
| May 24, 1993 | Eritrea gains its independence from Ethiopia. |
| May 24, 1993 | Roman Catholic Cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo and five other people are assassinated in a shootout at Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla Guadalajara International Airport in Mexico. |
| May 29, 1993 | The Miss Sarajevo beauty pageant is held in war-torn Sarajevo drawing global attention to the plight of its citizens. |
| June 1, 1993 | Dobrinja mortar attack: Thirteen are killed and 133 wounded when Serb mortar shells are fired at a soccer game in Dobrinja, west of Sarajevo. |
| June 5, 1993 | Portions of the Holbeck Hall Hotel in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, UK, fall into the sea following a landslide. |
| June 6, 1993 | Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat wins the first presidential election in Mongolia. |
| June 12, 1993 | An election takes place in Nigeria and is won by Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola. Its results are later annulled by the military Government of Ibrahim Babangida. |
| June 25, 1993 | Kim Campbell is sworn in as the first female Prime Minister of Canada. |
| July 9, 1993 | The Parliament of Canada passes the Nunavut Act leading to the 1999 creation of Nunavut, dividing the Northwest Territories into arctic (Inuit) and sub-arctic (Dene) lands based on a plebiscite. |
| July 22, 1993 | Great Flood of 1993: Levees near Kaskaskia, Illinois rupture, forcing the entire town to evacuate by barges operated by the Army Corps of Engineers. |
| July 23, 1993 | China Northwest Airlines Flight 2119 crashes during takeoff from Yinchuan Xihuayuan Airport in Yinchuan, Ningxia, China, killing 55 people. |
| July 25, 1993 | Israel launches a massive attack against Lebanon in what the Israelis call Operation Accountability, and the Lebanese call the Seven-Day War. |
| July 25, 1993 | The Saint James Church massacre occurs in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa. |
| July 26, 1993 | Asiana Airlines Flight 733 crashes into a ridge on Mt. Ungeo on its third attempt to land at Mokpo Airport, South Korea. Sixty-eight of the 116 people onboard are killed. |
| July 29, 1993 | The Supreme Court of Israel acquits alleged Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk of all charges and he is set free. |
| August 1, 1993 | The Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood of 1993 comes to a peak. |
| August 7, 1993 | Ada Deer, a Menominee activist, is sworn in as the head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. |
| August 8, 1993 | The 7.8 Mw Guam earthquake shakes the island with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), causing around $250 million in damage and injuring up to 71 people. |
| August 9, 1993 | The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan loses a 38-year hold on national leadership. |
| August 10, 1993 | Two earthquakes affect New Zealand. A 7.0 Mw shock (intensity VI (Strong)) in the South Island was followed nine hours later by a 6.4 Mw event (intensity VII (Very strong)) in the North Island. |
| August 18, 1993 | American International Airways Flight 808 crashes at Leeward Point Field at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, injuring the three crew members. |
| August 20, 1993 | After rounds of secret negotiations in Norway, the Oslo Accords are signed, followed by a public ceremony in Washington, D.C. the following month. |
| August 21, 1993 | NASA loses contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft. |
| August 28, 1993 | NASA's Galileo probe performs a flyby of the asteroid 243 Ida. Astronomers later discover a moon, the first known asteroid moon, in pictures from the flyby and name it Dactyl. |
| August 28, 1993 | Singaporean presidential election: Former Deputy Prime Minister Ong Teng Cheong is elected President of Singapore. Although it is the first presidential election to be determined by popular vote, the allowed candidates consist only of Ong and a reluctant whom the government had asked to run to confer upon the election the semblance of an opposition.[8] |
| August 28, 1993 | The autonomous Croatian Community of Herzeg-Bosnia in Bosnia and Herzegovina was transformed into the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia. |
| August 31, 1993 | Russia completes removing its troops from Lithuania. |
| September 9, 1993 | Israeli–Palestinian peace process: The Palestine Liberation Organization officially recognizes Israel as a legitimate state. |
| September 13, 1993 | Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House after signing the Oslo Accords granting limited Palestinian autonomy. |
| September 14, 1993 | Lufthansa Flight 2904, an Airbus A320, crashes into an embankment after overshooting the runway at Okęcie International Airport (now Warsaw Chopin Airport), killing two people. |
| September 21, 1993 | Russian President Boris Yeltsin triggers a constitutional crisis when he suspends parliament and scraps the constitution. |
| September 22, 1993 | A barge strikes a railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama, causing the deadliest train wreck in Amtrak history. Forty-seven passengers are killed. |
| September 22, 1993 | A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia. |
| September 24, 1993 | The Cambodian monarchy is restored, with Norodom Sihanouk as king. |
| September 27, 1993 | The Sukhumi massacre takes place in Abkhazia. |
| September 30, 1993 | The 6.2 Mw Latur earthquake shakes Maharashtra, India with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe) killing 9,748 and injuring 30,000. |
| October 3, 1993 | An American attack against a warlord in Mogadishu fails; eighteen US soldiers and over 350 Somalis die. |
| October 4, 1993 | Battle of Mogadishu occurs killing 18 U.S. Special Forces, two UN Peacekeepers and at least 600 Somalian militia men and civilians. |
| October 4, 1993 | Tanks bombard the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against President Yeltsin rally outside. |
| October 7, 1993 | The flood of '93 ends at St. Louis, Missouri, 103 days after it began, as the Mississippi River falls below flood stage. |
| October 13, 1993 | At least 60 people die in eastern Papua New Guinea when a series of earthquakes rock the Finisterre Range, triggering massive landslides. |
| October 23, 1993 | The Troubles: A Provisional IRA bomb prematurely detonates in Belfast, killing the bomber and nine civilians. |
| November 1, 1993 | The Maastricht Treaty takes effect, formally establishing the European Union. |
| November 4, 1993 | China Airlines Flight 605, a brand-new 747-400, overruns the runway at Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport. |
| November 9, 1993 | Stari Most, the "old bridge" in the Bosnian city of Mostar, built in 1566, collapses after several days of bombing by Croat forces during the Croat–Bosniak War. |
| November 11, 1993 | A sculpture honoring women who served in the Vietnam War is dedicated at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. |
| November 13, 1993 | China Northern Airlines Flight 6901 crashes on approach to Ürümqi Diwopu International Airport in Ürümqi, China, killing 12 people. |
| November 17, 1993 | United States House of Representatives passes a resolution to establish the North American Free Trade Agreement. |
| November 17, 1993 | In Nigeria, General Sani Abacha ousts the government of Ernest Shonekan in a military coup. |
| November 18, 1993 | In the United States, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is approved by the House of Representatives. |
| November 18, 1993 | In South Africa, 21 political parties approve a new constitution, expanding voting rights and ending white minority rule. |
| November 20, 1993 | Savings and loan crisis: 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, 1993 | Macedonia's deadliest aviation disaster occurs when Avioimpex Flight 110, a Yakovlev Yak-42, crashes near Ohrid, killing all 116 people on board. |
| December 2, 1993 | Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is shot and killed in Medellín. |
| December 2, 1993 | Space Shuttle program: STS-61: NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. |
| December 7, 1993 | Long Island Rail Road shooting: Passenger Colin Ferguson murders six people and injures 19 others on the LIRR in Nassau County, New York. |
| December 10, 1993 | The last shift leaves Wearmouth Colliery in Sunderland. The closure of the 156-year-old pit marks the end of the old County Durham coalfield, which had been in operation since the Middle Ages. |
| December 11, 1993 | A block of the Highland Towers condominium complex collapses following a landslide caused by heavy rain and water flowing from a construction site at Ampang district in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 48 of its residents die, including one who died in hospital after being rescued alive, leaving only two survivors. |
| December 15, 1993 | The Troubles: The Downing Street Declaration is issued by British Prime Minister John Major and Irish Taoiseach Albert Reynolds. |
| December 30, 1993 | Israel establishes diplomatic relations with Vatican City and also upgrades to full diplomatic relations with Ireland. |