1993 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1993?
- January 7, 1993 – Bosnian War: The Bosnian Army executes a surprise attack on the village of Kravica in Srebrenica.
- January 18, 1993 – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is officially observed for the first time in all 50 states.
- January 19, 1993 – Czech Republic and Slovakia join the United Nations.
- January 23, 1993 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Rooster in Chinese astrology.
- 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 6 and injuring over a thousand.
- March 24, 1993 – Discovery of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9.
- April 19, 1993 – South Dakota governor George Mickelson and seven others are killed when a state-owned aircraft crashes in Iowa.
- April 22, 1993 – Version 1.0 of the Mosaic web browser is released.
- April 27, 1993 – 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 qualifying match against Senegal.
- May 10, 1993 – In Thailand, a fire at the Kader Toy Factory kills 156 workers.
- May 28, 1993 – Eritrea and Monaco join the United Nations.
- June 1, 1993 – Dobrinja mortar attack: 13 are killed and 133 wounded when Serb mortar shells are fired at a soccer game in Dobrinja, west of Sarajevo.
- June 25, 1993 – Kim Campbell is chosen as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and becomes the first female Prime Minister of Canada.
- July 4, 1993 – Sumitomo Chemical’s resin plant in Nihama explodes killing one worker and injuring three others.
- July 25, 1993 – The Saint James Church massacre occurs in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa.
- August 10, 1993 – An earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter Scale hits the South Island of New Zealand.
- August 27, 1993 – The Rainbow Bridge, connecting Tokyo’s Shibaura and the island of Odaiba, is completed.
- October 7, 1993 – The Great Flood of 1993 ends at St. Louis, Missouri, 103 days after it began, as the Mississippi River falls below flood stage.
- November 23, 1993 – Rachel Whiteread wins both the £20,000 Turner Prize award for best British modern artist and the £40,000 K Foundation art award for the worst artist of the year.
- 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.
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