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('''
MCMXCIII ''') was a
Common Year Starting On Friday of the
Gregorian Calendar and marked the ''Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003)''.
inaugurated as
President Of The United States .]]
- January 1 - Czechoslovakia divides. Establishment of independent Slovakia and Czech Republic .
- January 3 - In Moscow , George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
- January 5 - Washington State executes Westley Allan Dodd by Hanging (the first legal hanging in America since 1965 )
- January 9 - Jean-Claude Romand kills his family and tries to burn himself with his home in France
- January 14 - The Polish Ferry Jan Heweliusz sinks off the coast of Rügen in the Baltic Sea , leaving 54 people dead.
- January 15 - Salvatore Riina , the Mafia boss known as 'The Beast', is arrested in Sicily after three-decades as a fugitive
- January 18 - For the first time, Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday is officially observed in all 50 American States .
- January 19 - IBM announces a $4.97 billion loss for 1992 which is the largest single-year corporate loss in United States history
- 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 No-Fly Zone . US 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 President Of The United States Of America
- January 25 - Catherine Callbeck becomes Premier of Prince Edward Island , becoming the first female Premier to be elected in Canada . ( Rita Johnston was Canada's first female Premier but was not elected)
- January 25 - Mir Aimal Kasi fires a rifle and kills two employees outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia , USA
- January 26 - Václav Havel elected President of the Czech Republic
- January 31 - The Buffalo Bills become the first team to lose three consecutive Super Bowls , as they are defeated by the Dallas Cowboys , 52-17, in Super Bowl XXVII .
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- April - The Kuwait i government claims to uncover an Iraq i assassination plot against former US President George H. W. Bush 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 {Link without Title}
- April 6 - Russian Nuclear Accident at Tomsk 7
- April 6 - HMS Richmond launched for the Royal Navy
- April 7 - Attack submarine Ex-Queenfish is recycled as part of the Ship-Submarine Recycling Program
- April 10 - ANC activist Chris Hani assassinated in South Africa
- April 18 - Joseph Wallace is killed by his mother in their Chicago apartment
- April 19 - A 51-day stand-off at the Branch Davidian building near Waco , Texas , ends with a fire that kills seventy-six people, including David Koresh .
- April 22 - In Washington, DC , the Holocaust Memorial Museum is dedicated
- April 22 - Murder of Stephen Lawrence , London , UK
- April 23 - WHO declares Tuberculosis a Global Emergency
- April 24 - Bishopsgate Bomb explodes in the City Of London - 1 dead, 50 injured
- April 30 - The World Wide Web was born at CERN
leader
Yasir Arafat and
Israel i prime minister
Yitzhak Rabin , with US President,
Bill Clinton .]]
- February 5 - Joseph L. Mankiewicz , American writer, producer, and director (b. 1909 )
- February 5 - Tip Tipping , American actor and stuntman (parachuting accident) (b. 1958 )
- February 6 - Arthur Ashe , American tennis player and activist (b. 1943 )
- February 11 - Robert W. Holley , American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (b. 1922 )
- February 18 - Jacqueline Hill , British actress (b. 1929 )
- February 20 - Ferruccio Lamborghini , Italian automobile manufacturer (b. 1916 )
- February 24 - Bobby Moore , English footballer (b. 1941 )
- February 27 - Lillian Gish , American actress (b. 1893 )
- February 28 - Ruby Keeler , Canadian actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1910 )
- June 5 - Conway Twitty , Country music singer (b. 1933 )
- June 7 - Drazen Petrovic , Croatian basketball player (b. 1964 )
- June 9 - Alexis Smith , Canadian actress (b. 1921 )
- June 13 - Deke Slayton , astronaut (b. 1924 )
- June 15 - John Connally , Governor of Texas (b. 1917 )
- June 19 - William Golding , English writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911 )
- June 24 - Archie Williams , American athlete (b. 1915 )
- June 26 - William H. Riker , American political scientist (b. 1920 )
- June 28 - G.G. Allin , Punk rock singer and bandleader for a plethora of groups (b. 1956 )
- June 28 - Boris Christoff , Bulgarian opera singer (b. 1914 )
- June 29 - Héctor Lavoe , Puerto Rican singer (b. 1946 )
- June 30 - George "Spanky" McFarland , American actor (b. 1928 )
- Charles M. Manson Jr, the son of Charles Manson , commits suicide at age 38