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1993 |
| January 1st |
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Establishment of independent Slovakia and Czech Republic, as
Czechoslovakia split as vote by the Czechoslovakia Federal Assembly
on November 25th 1992. |
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| January 3rd |
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At the Kremlin in Moscow, President George H. W. Bush Snr.,
in his last act as President, and Boris Yeltsin signed the second
Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START II). |
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| January 18th |
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The
national holiday celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. was officially
observed for the first time in all 50 American states. |
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| January 20th |
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In the U.S. Bill Clinton officially took his post as the new
President of the United States of America. He succeeded George
H. W. Bush Snr. |
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| January 25th |
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Mir Aimal Kasi fired a rifle and killed two employees outside
the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, USA. |
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| January 26th |
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Czech dramatist, politician and human rights activist Václav
Havel returned to the political stage and was elected as the
President of the new Czech Republic. |
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| February
6th |
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The
American tennis player and activist Arthur Ashe died. Ashe won
the Wimbledon Mens Single tournament in 1975, beating Jimmy
Connors. |
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| February
11th |
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Janet
Reno was selected by President Clinton as the new US Attorney
General. |
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| February
12th |
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Two 11-year-old boys, Robert Thompson and John Venables, abducted,
tormented and killed 2-year-old Jamie Bulger in Liverpool, England.
The act shocked and stunned the British general public. |
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| February
17th |
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A passenger ferry in Haiti sank. It was believed that only 285
people survived out of possible 1,500 passengers. |
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| February
26th |
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In New York City, a van packed with explosives was detonated
by Muslim terrorists parked below the North Tower of the World
Trade Center. The bomb killed 6 people and injured nearly a
thousand more. |
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| February
28th |
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US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms raided the compound
of Branch Davidian in Waco, Texas. The warrant was for the arrest
of cult leader David Koresh on federal firearms violation. Four
agents and five Davidians died in the raid and the 51-day stand
off began. The FBI ended the siege with an armed assault on
April 19th. |
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| March 4th |
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In America US authorities announced the capture of the suspected
'World Trade Center' bombing conspirator Mohammad Salameh. |
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| March 9th |
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Black motorist Rodney King testified at the federal trial of
four LAPD police officers accused of violating King's civil
rights. King's beating by the four LAPD officers was secretly
filmed on March 3rd 1991. |
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| March 11th |
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Janet Reno became the first female Attorney General of the United
States when her appointment was confirmed by the United States
Senate. Attorney General Reno was sworn into office March 12th
1993. |
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| March 20th |
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The Irish nationalist terror group, the IRA, caused public outrage
when they exploded a bomb in Warrington Town Centre. The bomb
killed two children, Johnathan Ball and Tim Parry. |
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| March 27th |
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Jiang Zemin became the new President of the People's Republic
of China. |
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| April. |
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The Kuwaiti government claims to uncover an Iraqi assassination
plot against former US President George H. W. Bush Snr. shortly
after his visit to Kuwait. Two Iraqi nationals, caught with
smuggled hashish and alcohol inside Kuwait, confess to driving
a car-bomb into Kuwait on behalf of the Iraq Secret Service. |
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| April 10th |
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ANC activist Chris Hani was assassinated in South Africa. |
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| April 19th |
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The
FBI ended the siege in Waco, Texas. FBI agents launched an armed
assault to remove the Davidians from the Mount Carmel compound.
The compound was destroyed by fire and 87 people were killed.
The cult leader David Koresh was found with a bullet in the
head, thought to be shot by his right hand man Steve Schneider. |
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| April 22nd |
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Black
teenager Stephen Lawrence was brutally murdered in a racially
motivated attack in south London, England. |
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| April 24th |
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In England, the Bishopsgate Bomb exploded in the City of London.
The blast killed 1 person and injured 50. |
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| April 30th |
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In the United States, the World Wide Web was born at CERN. |
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| May 1st |
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A Tamil Tigers suicide bomber assassinated President Ranasinghe
Premadasa of Sri Lanka. |
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| June
13th |
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Retired
NASA astronaut Deke Slayton died. Originally selected
as part of the Mercury Project, he went into space during the
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) mission, 15th-24th July 1975. |
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| June 15th |
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John Connally, ex-Governor of Texas, died. Connally rode in
the same car as President Kennedy when he was assassinated on
November 22nd 1963. Connally was seriously wounded. |
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| June 23rd |
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Lorena
Bobbitt severed off the penis of her husband John Wayne Bobbitt
with a kitchen knife while he slept at their home in Manassas,
Virginia, United States. |
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| June 22nd |
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The 'Unabomber' struct again when a bomb injured Charles Epstein
in Tiburon, California. |
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| June 24th |
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The 'Unabomber' bomb injured another. The victim was a computer
scientist at Yale University, David Gelernter. |
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| June 27th |
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US President Bill Clinton ordered a cruise missile attack on
Iraqi intelligence HQ in the Al-Mansur District, Baghdad. It
was in response to the attempted plot assassinate the former
U.S. President George H. W. Bush Snr. during his visit to Kuwait
in April. |
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| July 12th |
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The small island of Okushiri, Hokkaido, Japan was hit by a tsunami
which killed 202 people. The tsunami was triggered off by a
7.8 earthquake. |
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| July 29th |
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The Israeli Supreme Court acquitted the accused Nazi death camp
guard John Demjanjuk of all charges and he was set free. |
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| August 4th |
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LAPD officers Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell were sentenced
to 30 months imprisonment by a federal judge, for the violation
of Rodney King's civil rights. |
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| August 21st |
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NASA lost radio contact with the Mars Observer orbiter three
days before the spacecraft was scheduled to enter orbit around
Mars. |
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| September
13th |
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At the White House in Washington D.C. USA, PLO leader Yasir
Arafat and Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin shook hands
in front of the World's media. They had just signed the Peace
Accord agreement. |
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| September
29th |
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In India an earthquake killed approximately 10,000 people. The
epicentre of the quake was Killari, Maharashtra. |
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| October 3rd |
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During the UN mission to supply and distribute humanitarian
aid and establish peace in war torn Somalia, a large scale battle
erupted between US forces and the local militia in Mogadishu,
Somalia. |
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| October 5th |
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Second October Revolution in Russia. Tanks surrounded and blasted
the Russian parliament building in Moscow. |
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| October 25th |
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The American actor Vincent Price died. Price was famous for
his roles in horror films. |
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| October 31st |
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The
American actor River Phoenix died of a drug overdose. |
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| November
1st |
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The Maastricht Treaty was activated, which established the transition
from the European Community (EC) to the European Union (EU).
The treaty was signed in Maastricht, Holland on December 10th
1991. |
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| November
9th |
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In
Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Old Bridge of Mostar was destroyed by
Bosnian Croat forces. |
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| November
24th |
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In Britain, the two 11-year-olds boys Robert Thompson and Jon
Venables were convicted of the abduction and brutal murder of
2-year-old Jamie Bulger of Liverpool, England, on February 12th
1993. Both boys were sentenced to "indefinite detention"
by the court. |
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| November
28th |
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The British newspaper 'The Observer' revealed that the British
government, regardless of persistent denials, have had an open
channel of communications with the Irish nationlist terror group,
the IRA (Irish Republican Army). |
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| December
2nd |
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NASA launched the Space Shuttle 'Endeavour' on mission STS-61
to repair an optical flaw that had developed on the Hubble Space
Telescope. |
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| December
2nd |
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The Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was fatally shot and killed
when he was cornered on rooftops while he attempted to escape
capture from the Police in Medellin, Columbia. |
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| December
4th |
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The American guitarist, musician and composer Frank Zappa died. |
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| December
9th |
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Danny Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer and football manager
died. Blanchflower was captain of the famous 'Double' winning
Tottenham side of 1960-61. |
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| December
11th |
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Highland Towers condomunium, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia collapsed
and killed 48 people. |
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| December
12th |
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In Indonesia a devastating earthquake hit Flores. The earthquake
killed 2,200 people. |
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| December
15th |
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The British government committed itself with the 'Downing Street
Declaration'. To answer the problems facing Northern Ireland. |
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| December
30th |
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The Jewish state of Israel and the Catholic Vatican established
the first diplomatic relations bewteen each other. |
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