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*[[Michael Jackson]]'s alleged [[1993 Michael Jackson sexual abuse allegations|sexual abuse]] in his residence;
*one of the Black Hawks above Mogadishu, then was shot down  in the [[Battle of Mogadishu (1993)|Battle of Mogadishu]]; 
*the [[great flood of 1993]] took 50 lives;
*The [[Burundian Civil War]], an ethnic conflict between the Hutu majority and the Tutsi minority that began in 1993 after the assassination of the first democratically elected president, [[Melchior Ndadaye]];
*[[Pablo Escobar]], dubbed the King of Cocaine, is [[Death of Pablo Escobar|shot]] by the [[Search Bloc]]; the team celebrates killing him;
*[[1993 World Trade Center bombing|a van bomb]] on the [[World Trade Center (1973-2001)|World Trade Center]] kills 6 and injures more than a thousand;
*[[1993 Storm of the Century|A big nor'easter, dubbed the Storm of the Century]], affected the [[East Coast of the United States|East Coast]], though its impacts extended into [[Canada]] and [[Cuba]]. A total of 318 people were killed;
*the [[Waco siege]], a 51-day standoff between the [[Branch Davidians]] religious sect, led by [[David Koresh]], and U.S. federal authorities; 86 are dead; this leads to [[Timothy McVeigh]] [[Oklahoma City bombing|bombing]] a building 2 years later;
*images of the [[Big Bayou Canot rail accident]]; an Amtrak passenger train derailed on a bridge that had been struck and partially dislodged by a barge eight minutes earlier. 47 people died and more than 100 were injured.
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The [[United Nations General Assembly|General Assembly of the United Nations]] designated 1993 as:
* International Year for the World's Indigenous People<ref>{{cite web |title=International Year for the World's Indigenous People, 1993 : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly |url=https://www.refworld.org/legal/resolution/unga/1992/en/29286 |website=UNHCR |access-date=27 May 2025}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/22/world/in-marshall-islands-friday-is-followed-by-sunday.html |title=In Marshall Islands, Friday Is Followed by Sunday |work=[[New York Times]] |author=[[Associated Press]] |date=August 22, 1993 |access-date=May 8, 2022 |df=dmy-all |archive-date=October 11, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011093207/http://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/22/world/in-marshall-islands-friday-is-followed-by-sunday.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

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==Events==

===January===
* [[January 1]]
** [[Czechoslovakia]] ceases to exist, as the [[Czech Republic]] and [[Slovakia]] separate in the [[Dissolution of Czechoslovakia]].
** The [[European Economic Community]] eliminates trade barriers and creates a European [[single market]].
* [[January 3]] – In Moscow, Presidents [[George H. W. Bush]] (United States) and [[Boris Yeltsin]] (Russia) sign the [[START II|second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty]].
* [[January 5]]
** US$7.4&nbsp;million is stolen from the [[Brink's]] Armored Car Depot in [[Rochester, New York]], in the fifth largest robbery in U.S. history.
** {{MV|Braer}}, a [[Liberia]]n-registered [[oil tanker]], runs aground off the Scottish island of [[Mainland, Shetland]], causing a massive oil spill.
* [[January 6]]
** [[Douglas Hurd]] is the first high-ranking British official to visit [[Argentina]] since the [[Falklands War]].
** [[January 6]]–[[January 20|20]] – The [[Bombay riots]] take place in [[Mumbai]].
* [[January 7]] – The [[Fourth Republic of Ghana]] is inaugurated, with [[Jerry Rawlings]] as president.
* [[January 8]]–[[January 17|17]] – The [[Braer Storm of January 1993]], the most intense [[extratropical cyclone]] on record for the northern Atlantic Ocean, occurs.
* [[January 13]]
** The [[Chemical Weapons Convention]] (CWC) is signed by President George H. W. Bush.<ref>{{Cite web |title=U.S. Ratification Timeline {{!}} Chemical Weapons Convention Archive |url=https://cwc.fas.org/us-ratification/us-ratification-timeline |access-date=2025-09-14 |language=en-US}}</ref>
** [[Iraq disarmament crisis]]: [[January 1993 airstrikes on Iraq|US, British and French aircraft attack Iraqi Surface to Air Missile sites in Southern Iraq]].
* [[January 14]] – The Polish ferry {{MS|Jan Heweliusz}} [[Sinking of the MS Jan Heweliusz|sinks]] off the coast of [[Rügen]] in the [[Baltic Sea]], killing 54 people.<ref>{{Cite news |last= |date=1993-01-15 |title=54 Die as Polish Ferry Capsizes in Baltic Sea |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/15/world/54-die-as-polish-ferry-capsizes-in-baltic-sea.html |access-date=2025-02-20 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
* [[January 19]] – Iraq disarmament crisis: [[Iraq]] 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 [[Iraqi no-fly zones]]. U.S. forces fire approximately 40 Tomahawk cruise missiles at [[Baghdad]] factories linked to Iraq's illegal nuclear weapons program (→ [[January 1993 airstrikes on Iraq]]). Iraq then informs UNSCOM that it will be able to resume its flights.
* [[January 20]] – [[Bill Clinton]] is [[First inauguration of Bill Clinton|inaugurated]] [[US President]] <ref>{{Cite web |title=Inaugural Address {{!}} The American Presidency Project |url=https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/inaugural-address-51 |access-date=2025-09-11 |website=www.presidency.ucsb.edu}}</ref>
* [[January 24]] – In [[Turkey]], thousands protest against the murder of journalist [[Uğur Mumcu]].
* [[January 25]] – [[Social Democrats (Denmark)|Social Democrat]] [[Poul Nyrup Rasmussen]] succeeds [[Conservative People's Party (Denmark)|Conservative]] [[Poul Schlüter]] as [[Prime Minister of Denmark]].
* [[January 26]] – [[Václav Havel]] is elected President of the Czech Republic.
* [[January 30]] – The [[B Line (Los Angeles Metro)|Red Line]] (later known as the B Line) officially begins service in [[Los Angeles]], becoming the first underground [[rapid transit]] line to open in almost 70 years.

=== February ===
[[File:WTC 1993 ATF Commons.jpg|thumb|150px|The aftermath of the [[World Trade Center bombing]].]]
* [[February 4]] – Members of the right-wing Austrian [[Freedom Party of Austria]] split to form the [[Liberal Forum]] in protest against the increasing nationalistic bent of the party.
* [[February 10]]
** [[Lien Chan]] is named by [[Lee Teng-hui]] to succeed [[Hau Pei-tsun]] as [[Premier of the Republic of China]].
** ''[[Mani pulite]]'' scandal: Italian legislator [[Claudio Martelli]] resigns, followed by various politicians over the next two weeks.
* [[February 12]] – [[Murder of James Bulger]]: Two-year-old James Bulger is abducted from [[New Strand Shopping Centre]] by two ten-year-old boys Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, who later torture and murder him. 
* [[February 14]]
** [[Glafcos Clerides]] defeats incumbent [[George Vasiliou]] in the Cypriot presidential election.
** [[Albert Zafy]] defeats [[Didier Ratsiraka]] in the Madagascar presidential election.
* [[February 22]] – [[United Nations Security Council Resolution 808]] is voted on, deciding that "an international tribunal shall be established" to prosecute violations of international law in [[Yugoslavia]]. The tribunal is established on [[May 25]] by [[United Nations Security Council Resolution 827|Resolution 827]].
* [[February 26]] – [[World Trade Center bombing]]: In New York City, a van bomb parked below the North Tower of the [[World Trade Center (1973-2001)|World Trade Center]] explodes, killing six people and injuring over one thousand.

===March===
* [[March 5]] – [[Republic of Macedonia|Macedonian]] [[Palair]] [[Palair Macedonian Airlines Flight 301|Flight 301]], an [[Fokker 100|F-100]] on a flight to [[Zürich]], 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.idialstars.com/clfumo.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081215031654/http://www.idialstars.com/clfumo.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 15, 2008|title=Closest Full Moon since March 8, 1993}}</ref>
* [[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.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/12/us/reno-is-confirmed-in-top-justice-job.html|title=Reno is confirmed in top justice job|last=Ifill|first=Gwen|date=March 12, 1993|work=The New York Times|access-date=August 27, 2018|language=en|archive-date=June 24, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180624010549/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/12/us/reno-is-confirmed-in-top-justice-job.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[March 12]]
** [[1993 Bombay bombings]]: Several bombs explode in [[Mumbai|Bombay]], India, killing 257 and injuring hundreds more.
** [[North Korea nuclear weapons program]]: [[North Korea]] announces that it plans to withdraw from the [[Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty]] and refuses to allow inspectors access to nuclear sites, beginning the [[1994 North Korean nuclear crisis|1993–94 North Korean Nuclear Crisis]].
* [[March 13]]–[[March 15|15]] – The [[1993 Storm of the Century]] strikes the eastern U.S., bringing record snowfall and other severe weather all the way from [[Cuba]] to [[Quebec]]; it reportedly kills 184 people.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Armstrong|first1=Tim|title=Superstorm of 1993: "Storm of the Century"|url=http://www.weather.gov/ilm/Superstorm93|website=NOAA|access-date=February 12, 2017|archive-date=July 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210714033914/https://www.weather.gov/ilm/Superstorm93|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[March 13]] – [[1993 Australian federal election]]: [[Paul Keating]]'s [[Australian Labor Party|Labor]] [[Keating government|government]] is re-elected with an increased majority, defeating the [[Liberal Party of Australia|Liberal]]/[[National Party of Australia|National]] [[Coalition (Australia)|Coalition]] led by [[John Hewson]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://australianpolitics.com/elections/federal-1993|title=1993 Federal Election &#124; AustralianPolitics.com|website=australianpolitics.com|access-date=February 23, 2021|archive-date=February 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224101728/https://australianpolitics.com/elections/federal-1993|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[March 17]] – The [[Kurdistan Workers' Party]] announces a unilateral [[ceasefire]] in [[Iraq]].
* [[March 24]]
** The Israeli [[Knesset]] elects [[Ezer Weizman]] as [[President of Israel]].
** South Africa officially abandons its [[South Africa and weapons of mass destruction|nuclear weapons programme]]. President de Klerk announces that the country's six warheads had already been dismantled in [[1989]].
* [[March 27]]
** [[Jiang Zemin]] becomes [[President of the People's Republic of China]].
** Following a rash of [[Integrism|integrist]] murders (including those of foreigners), [[Algeria]] breaks [[Algeria–Iran relations|diplomatic relations with Iran]], accusing the country of interfering in its interior affairs.
** [[Mahamane Ousmane]] is elected president of [[Niger]].
* [[March 28]] – [[1993 French legislative election]]: [[Rally for the Republic]] (Gaullist party) wins a majority and [[Édouard Balladur]] becomes [[Prime Minister of France|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 [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]].

===April===
* 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 River|Mississippi]] and [[Missouri River]]s flood large portions of the American Midwest.
* [[April 8]] – The [[Republic of Macedonia]] is admitted to the [[United Nations]] under a provisional reference "the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia".
* [[April 11]] – Four hundred fifty prisoners [[riot]]ed 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". Also members of the Jokeri unit of the [[Croatian Defence Council|HVO]] entered the village of [[Ahmići massacre|Ahmići]] and killed 120 Muslim residents.
* [[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.
** [[Backstreet Boys]] were formed in [[Orlando, Florida|Orlando]], [[Florida]].
* [[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]]
** The [[World Health Organization]] declares [[tuberculosis]] a global emergency.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Rise in TB declared a global emergency |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/rise-in-tb-declared-a-global-emergency-1456999.html |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20221129084150/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/rise-in-tb-declared-a-global-emergency-1456999.html |archive-date=2022-11-29 |access-date=2025-02-20 |work=The Independent |language=en-GB}}</ref>
** [[Eritrea]]ns vote overwhelmingly for independence from [[Ethiopia]] in a [[United Nations]]-monitored referendum, the [[1993 Eritrean independence referendum]].
* [[April 25]] – In the [[1993 Russian government referendum]] during the power struggle between President and Parliament a majority expresses confidence in President Yeltsin and his reform politics while rejecting early elections.
* [[April 26]] – [[Oscar Luigi Scalfaro]] appoints [[Carlo Azeglio Ciampi]] [[Prime Minister of Italy]].
* [[April 27]]
** [[Eritrea]]: Eritrean independence is declared verified by the [[United Nations]].
** [[1993 Yemeni parliamentary election]]: The [[General People's Congress (Yemen)|General People's Congress of Yemen]] wins a [[Plurality (voting)|plurality]] of 121 seats.
** [[1993 Zambia national football team plane crash]]: All members of the [[Zambia national football team]] die in a [[plane crash]] off Libreville, Gabon en route to [[Dakar]], [[Senegal]].
* [[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]].

===May===
* [[May 1]] – [[Assassination of Ranasinghe Premadasa]]: During a [[International Workers' Day|May Day]] rally, [[President of Sri Lanka]] [[Ranasinghe Premadasa]] is assassinated by a [[Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam]] [[Suicide Bomber|suicide bomber]]. [[Prime Minister of Sri Lanka|Prime Minister]] [[Dingiri Banda Wijetunga]] succeeds Premadasa as the 3rd executive president of [[Sri Lanka]].
* [[May 4]] – [[UNOSOM II]] assumes the [[Somalia]]n duties of the dissolved [[UNITAF]].
* [[May 9]] – [[Juan Carlos Wasmosy]] becomes the first democratically elected [[President of Paraguay]] in nearly 40 years, after defeating [[Domingo Laíno]] in the [[1993 Paraguayan general election]].
* [[May 15]] – [[Niamh Kavanagh]] wins the [[Eurovision Song Contest 1993|Eurovision Song Contest]] for Ireland with ''[[In Your Eyes (Niamh Kavanagh song)|In Your Eyes]]''.
* [[May 16]] – The [[Grand National Assembly of Turkey]] elects Prime Minister [[Süleyman Demirel]] as [[President of Turkey]]. After Demirel becomes president, the acting [[Prime Minister of Turkey]] is [[Erdal İnönü]] of [[Social Democratic Populist Party (Turkey)|Social Democratic Populist Party]] for 40 days.
* [[May 19]] – [[SAM Colombia Flight 501]], a [[Boeing 727-46]], [[Aviation accidents and incidents|crashed]] during its approach to [[José María Córdova International Airport]], Colombia, killing all 132 occupants on board.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Accident Boeing 727-46 HK-2422X, Wednesday 19 May 1993 |url=https://asn.flightsafety.org/asndb/325264 |access-date=2024-11-08 |website=asn.flightsafety.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Crash of a Boeing 727-46 on Mt Páramo Frontino: 132 killed {{!}} Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archives |url=https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-boeing-727-46-mt-paramo-frontino-132-killed |access-date=2024-11-08 |website=www.baaa-acro.com}}</ref>
* [[May 24]] – [[Eritrea]] gains independence from [[Ethiopia]].
* [[May 25]] – The [[International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia]] is created in [[The Hague]].
* [[May 28]] – Eritrea and [[Monaco]] gain entry to the United Nations.

===June===
* [[June 1]]
** Large protests erupt against [[Slobodan Milošević]]'s regime in [[Belgrade]]; opposition leader [[Vuk Drašković]] and his wife Danica are arrested.
** [[President of Guatemala]] [[Jorge Serrano Elías]] is forced to flee the country after an attempted [[self-coup]].
** [[1993 Burundian presidential election]]: The first multiparty elections in Burundi since the country's independence lead to the election of [[Melchior Ndadaye]], leader of the [[Front for Democracy in Burundi]]. The next day's [[1993 Burundian legislative election|legislative election]] sees his party win with an overwhelming majority.
* [[June 5]]
** The [[National Assembly of Venezuela]] designates [[Ramón José Velásquez]] as successor of suspended [[President of Venezuela|President]] [[Carlos Andrés Pérez]].
** [[June 1993 attack on Pakistani military in Somalia|Attack on Pakistani military in Somalia]]: twenty-four [[Pakistan]]i troops in the [[United Nations Operation in Somalia II|United Nations forces]] are killed in [[Mogadishu]], [[Somalia]].
* [[June 6]]
** Following the [[Revolutionary Nationalist Movement]]'s [[1993 Bolivian general election|victory]], [[Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada]] becomes President of Bolivia.
** [[Mongolia]] holds its first direct [[1993 Mongolian presidential election|presidential elections]], [[Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat]] remains president.
* [[June 8]] – [[Kurdish–Turkish conflict (1978–present)|Kurdish–Turkish conflict]]: the [[Kurdistan Workers' Party|PKK]]-declared [[1993 Kurdistan Workers' Party ceasefire|ceasefire]] ends in [[Iraq]].
* [[June 11]] – ''[[Jurassic Park (film)|Jurassic Park]]'' releases in cinemas in the United States.
* [[June 14]] – Multipartyists win [[1993 Malawian democracy referendum|a referendum]] on the future of the one-party system in [[Malawi]].
* [[June 18]]
** [[Iraq disarmament crisis]]: Iraq refuses to allow [[United Nations Special Commission|UNSCOM]] weapons inspectors to install remote-controlled monitoring cameras at two missile engine test stands.
** [[KTTV]] launched [[Good Day L.A.]]
* [[June 22]] – Japan's [[New Party Sakigake]] breaks away from the [[Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)|Liberal Democratic Party]].
* [[June 24]] – UK mathematician [[Andrew Wiles]] wins worldwide fame after presenting his proof of [[Fermat's Last Theorem]], a problem that had been unsolved for more than three centuries.
* [[June 25]]
** [[Kim Campbell]] becomes the 19th, and first female, [[Prime Minister of Canada]].
** [[Tansu Çiller]] of [[True Path Party (Turkey)|True Path Party]] forms the new government of [[Turkey]].
** [[Zoran Lilić]] succeeds [[Dobrica Ćosić]] as [[President of Serbia and Montenegro|President of Yugoslavia]].
** The [[Lithuanian litas|litas]] is introduced as the new currency of [[Lithuania]].
** [[Jacques Attali]] resigns as President of the [[European Bank for Reconstruction and Development]].
* [[June 26]]–[[June 28|28]] – [[Typhoon Koryn (1993)|Typhoon Koryn]] causes massive damage to the [[Philippines]], China and [[Macau]].
* [[June 27]] – U.S. President [[Bill Clinton]] orders a [[Cruise missile strikes on Iraq (June 1993)|cruise missile attack on Iraqi intelligence headquarters]] in the [[Al-Mansur]] District of [[Baghdad]], in response to an Iraqi plot to assassinate former U.S. President [[George H. W. Bush]] during his visit to Kuwait in mid-April.
* [[June 29]] – The first [[Mobile phone|mobile]] [[Telephone call|phone call]] was made in [[Greece]], marking the launch of [[mobile telephony]] services in the country by [[Nova (Greece)|Telestet (now NOVA)]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Χαλαβαζής |first=Πάνος |date=2021-06-29 |title=Σαν σήμερα το 1993 "γεννήθηκε" η κινητή τηλεφωνία στην Ελλάδα από την Telestet |url=https://www.ictplus.gr/san-simera-to-1993-gennithike-i-kiniti-tilefonia-stin-ellada-apo-tin-telestet/ |access-date=2024-11-14 |website=ICTPLUS |language=el}}</ref>

===July===
* [[July 5]]
** [[Iraq disarmament crisis]]: UN inspection teams leave Iraq. Iraq then agrees to [[UNSCOM]] demands and the inspection teams return.
** Electrochemist [[Faiza Al-Kharafi]] is appointed rector (president) of [[Kuwait University]], the first woman to head a major university in the Middle East.
* [[July 7]]–[[July 9|9]] – The [[19th G7 summit]] is held in Tokyo, Japan.
* [[July 7]] – [[Hurricane Calvin (1993)|Hurricane Calvin]] lands in Mexico. It is the second Pacific hurricane on record to land in Mexico in July and kills 34.
* [[July 8]] – [[1993 India floods|Monsoonal floods in South Asia]] begin, going on to kill more than three thousand people over the next month.<ref name="dartmouth-register">{{Cite web|title=1993 Global Register of Extreme Flood Events|url=http://www.dartmouth.edu/~floods/Archives/1993sum.htm|archive-date=2003-10-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031018232924/http://www.dartmouth.edu/~floods/Archives/1993sum.htm}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=MONSOON FLOODS SPREAD DESTRUCTION ACROSS SOUTH ASIA, KILLING 3,000|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1993/07/31/monsoon-floods-spread-destruction-across-south-asia-killing-3000/daf85676-a95d-4f2f-a755-731f47d7a22e/}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=S. Asia Floods Kill 4,200; More Deaths Feared|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-07-27-mn-17522-story.html}}</ref>

* [[July 12]] – The 7.7 {{M|w}} [[1993 Okushiri earthquake|Hokkaidō earthquake]] affects northern Japan with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (''Severe'') and triggers a devastating [[tsunami]] that kills 230 on the small island of [[Okushiri, Hokkaido]].
* [[July 18]] – [[1993 Japanese general election]]: The loss of majority of the Liberal Democratic Party results in a coalition taking power.
* [[July 25]] – In a [[terrorist attack]] members of the [[Azanian People's Liberation Army]] open fire on a congregation inside [[Saint James' Church Massacre|St James Church]] in [[Kenilworth, Cape Town]], killing eleven and injuring fifty.<ref name="Jeffery">{{Jeffery-People's War}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=TRC Reports on St James Church Massacre|url=http://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/trc-reports-st-james-church-massacre-video|website=South African History Online|publisher=Truth and Reconciliation Commission|access-date=January 31, 2015|quote=A terrorist attack on St. James Church in Cape Town, South Africa left 11 people dead and 58 wounded.|archive-date=January 31, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150131152112/http://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/trc-reports-st-james-church-massacre-video|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[July 26]]
** [[Miguel Indurain]] wins the [[1993 Tour de France]].
** [[Asiana Airlines Flight 733]] crashes into Mt. Ungeo in [[Haenam]], South Korea; 68 are killed.
* [[July 29]] – The [[Israeli Supreme Court]] acquits accused [[Nazi]] death camp guard [[John Demjanjuk]] of all charges and he is set free.
* [[July 30]] - [[1993 Ikaria forest fire|A wildfire]] on the [[Greece|Greek]] island of [[Ikaria]] kills 13.

===August===
* August – The [[European Exchange Rate Mechanism]] margin was expanded to 15% to accommodate [[speculation]] against the [[French franc]] and other currencies.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jaIvdqxtYxsC&q=August+1993+margin+15%25+French+franc&pg=PA30|title=Credit Growth in Emerging Europe: A Cause for Stability Concerns?|last1=Sirtaine|first1=Sophie|last2=Skamnelos|first2=Ilias|date=2007-01-01|publisher=World Bank Publications|pages=30|language=en}}</ref>
* [[August 5]] – The discovery of the [[Tel Dan Stele]], the first archaeological confirmation of the existence of the [[Davidic line]], announced.
* [[August 9]] – King [[Albert II of Belgium]] is sworn into office nine days after the death of his brother, King [[Baudouin of Belgium|Baudouin I]].
* [[August 13]] – More than 130 die in the [[Collapse of the Royal Plaza Hotel|collapse of Royal Plaza Hotel]] at [[Nakhon Ratchasima]] in [[Thailand]]'s worst hotel disaster.
* [[August 21]] – [[NASA]] loses radio contact with the [[Mars Observer]] orbiter 3 days before the spacecraft is scheduled to enter orbit around [[Mars]].
* [[August 28]] 
**[[Ong Teng Cheong]] becomes the first [[President of Singapore]] elected by the population.
**The first ''[[Power Rangers]]'' series, ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'' (an adaptation of ''[[Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger]]''), [[Day of the Dumpster|premieres]] in the United States.
* [[August 31]] – Russia completes removing its troops from [[Lithuania]].

===September===
* [[September 13]]
** [[1993 Norwegian parliamentary election]]: The Labour Party wins a plurality of the seats and Prime Minister [[Gro Harlem Brundtland]] retains office.
** [[Oslo I Accord]]: Following initially secret talks from earlier in the year, [[PLO]] leader [[Yasser Arafat]] and [[Israel]]i prime minister [[Yitzhak Rabin]] shake hands in Washington, D.C. after signing a peace accord.
* [[September 15]]–[[September 21|21]] – [[Hurricane Gert (1993)|Hurricane Gert]] crosses from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean through Central America and Mexico.
* [[September 17]] – Russian troops withdraw from Poland.
* [[September 19]] – [[1993 Polish parliamentary election]]: A coalition of the [[Democratic Left Alliance (Poland)|Democratic Left Alliance]] and the [[Polish People's Party]] led by [[Waldemar Pawlak]] comes into power.
* [[September 22]] – [[Big Bayou Canot train disaster]]: A bridge collapses while the Amtrak ''[[Sunset Limited]]'' is in the process of crossing it, killing 47 people.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Tolchin |first=Martin |date=1993-12-14 |title=3 Heroes Recall Amtrak Disaster on a Bayou |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/14/us/3-heroes-recall-amtrak-disaster-on-a-bayou.html |access-date=2025-02-20 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
* [[September 23]] – The [[International Olympic Committee]] selects [[Sydney]], Australia, to host the [[2000 Summer Olympics]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/09/24/1064083046670.html|work=Sydney Morning Herald|date=September 24, 2003|access-date=September 18, 2017|title=Sydney wins|first=Sam|last=North|archive-date=September 18, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170918210136/http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/09/24/1064083046670.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[September 24]] – The [[Cambodia]]n monarchy is restored, with [[Norodom Sihanouk]] as king.
* [[September 25]] – The [[Nipah Dam incident]]: Indonesian security forces shoot and kill four protesters opposing the construction of a dam.<ref>{{cite news |title=Government sanctions local official for dam incident |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1993/10/11/Government-sanctions-local-official-for-dam-incident/1937750312000/ |access-date=11 July 2025 |work=[[United Press International]] |date=11 October 1993}}</ref>
* [[September 26]]
** The first mission in [[Biosphere 2]] ends after two years.
** [[PoSAT-1]] (the first Portuguese satellite) is launched on board French rocket [[Ariane 4]].
* [[September 27]] – [[War in Abkhazia (1992–93)|War in Abkhazia]]: [[Sukhumi massacre|Fall of Sukhumi]] – [[Eduard Shevardnadze]] accuses Russia of passive complicity.
* [[September 30]] – [[1993 Latur earthquake|Latur earthquake]]: A 6.2 {{M|w}} earthquake occurs in the vicinity of [[Maharashtra]], India having a maximum [[Mercalli intensity scale|Mercalli intensity]] of VIII (''Severe''), killing 9,748 and injuring 30,000.

===October===
* [[October 3]]–[[October 4|4]]– [[Battle of Mogadishu (1993)|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 Blackhawk]]s 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 [[1993 Russian constitutional crisis|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 (law)|moratorium]].
* [[October 9]] – The South Korean ferry ''[[Sinking of the MV Seohae|Seohae]]'' capsizes off [[Pusan]], South Korea; 292 are killed.
* [[October 11]]–[[October 28|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]]
** [[1993 Greek legislative election]]: [[Andreas Papandreou]] begins his second term as [[Prime Minister of Greece]].
** The fifth summit of the [[Organisation internationale de la Francophonie|Francophonie]] opens in [[Mauritius]].
** The [[1993 Finisterre earthquakes]] in Papua New Guinea kill at least 60 due to landslides.<ref name="USGS">{{cite web |title=M 6.9 - 47 km NNE of Kainantu, Papua New Guinea |url=https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usp00061w1/executive |website=earthquake.usgs.gov |publisher=[[U.S. Geological Survey]] |access-date=11 October 2021 |archive-date=October 8, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221008080304/https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usp00061w1/executive |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[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 23]] – The [[Toronto Blue Jays]] repeat as [[World Series]] champions, becoming the first team to win back-to-back titles since the 1977–1978 [[New York Yankees]].

* [[October 25]] – [[1993 Canadian federal election]]: [[Jean Chrétien]] and his [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal Party]] defeat the governing [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative Party]], which falls to a historic low of two seats.
* [[October 27]]–[[October 31|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.<ref>{{cite news |title=THE SOUTHLAND FIRESTORM / DAY FIVE: The Southland Fires | url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-10-31-mn-51791-story.html|newspaper=[[LA Times]]|date=1993-10-31|access-date=2024-01-02}}</ref>  Two of these fire are the [[Laguna Fire (1993)|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===
{{Main|November 1993}}
* [[November 1]] – The [[Maastricht Treaty]] takes effect, formally establishing the [[European Union]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://european-union.europa.eu/principles-countries-history/principles-and-values/founding-agreements_en |title=Founding agreements |website=[[European Union]] |department=Principles and values |access-date=10 April 2022 |archive-date=April 9, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220409215631/https://european-union.europa.eu/principles-countries-history/principles-and-values/founding-agreements_en |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[November 4]] – [[Jean Chrétien]] becomes the 20th [[Prime Minister of Canada]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Profile - Chrétien, Joseph Jacques Jean |url=https://lop.parl.ca/sites/ParlInfo/default/en_CA/People/Profile?personId=306 |website=[[Parliament of Canada]] |department=People |publisher=[[Library of Parliament]] |access-date=10 April 2022 |archive-date=May 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220512033145/https://lop.parl.ca/sites/ParlInfo/default/en_CA/People/Profile?personId=306 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[November 5]] – The [[Parliament of the United Kingdom]] passes the [[Railways Act 1993]], setting out the procedures for [[privatisation of British Rail]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1993/43/introduction/enacted |title=Railways Act 1993 |website=[[legislation.gov.uk]] |publisher=[[Crown copyright#United Kingdom|Crown and database right]] |access-date=10 April 2022 |via=[[The National Archives (United Kingdom)|The National Archives]] |archive-date=April 10, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220410161515/https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1993/43/introduction/enacted |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[November 9]] – [[Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnian Croat]] forces destroy the ''[[Stari Most]]'', or Old Bridge of [[Mostar]], [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]], by tank fire.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1876&dat=19931111&id=-zcfAAAAIBAJ&pg=6713,3676022 |last=Buric |first=Nada |title=Croats blamed for destroying bridge |newspaper=Spartanburg Herald-Journal |agency=[[Associated Press]] |date=11 November 1993 |page=A9 |access-date=1 May 2022 |via=Google News |archive-date=May 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220501035103/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1876&dat=19931111&id=-zcfAAAAIBAJ&pg=6713,3676022 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.balcanicaucaso.org/eng/Areas/Bosnia-Herzegovina/Mostar-the-Old-One-twenty-years-later-143828#:~:text=Built%20nearly%20five%20centuries%20ago,bridge%20collapsed%20into%20the%20river. |last=Nuhefendić |first=Azra |title=Mostar: the Old One, twenty years later |publisher=[[Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa]] |department=Bosnia Herzegovina |date=8 November 2013 |access-date=16 April 2022 |archive-date=April 16, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220416074637/https://www.balcanicaucaso.org/eng/Areas/Bosnia-Herzegovina/Mostar-the-Old-One-twenty-years-later-143828#:~:text=Built%20nearly%20five%20centuries%20ago,bridge%20collapsed%20into%20the%20river. |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[November 12]] – [[London Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter|London Convention]]: Marine dumping of [[radioactive waste]] is outlawed.
* [[November 14]] – In [[1993 Puerto Rican status referendum|a status referendum]], residents of [[Puerto Rico]] vote by a slim margin to maintain [[Commonwealth (U.S. insular area)|Commonwealth]] status.<ref>{{cite journal |first=José O. |last=Díaz |title=Puerto Rico, the United States, and the 1993 Referendum on Political Status |journal=[[Latin American Research Review]] |volume=30 |issue=1 |year=1995 |pages=203–11 |doi=10.1017/S0023879100017258 |jstor=2504095 |doi-access=free | issn=0023-8791}}</ref>
* [[November 17]]–[[November 22|22]] – The [[North American Free Trade Agreement]] (NAFTA) passes the legislative houses in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
* November 17
** In Nigeria, General [[Sani Abacha]] ousts the government of [[Ernest Shonekan]] in a military coup.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/18/world/nigerian-military-leader-ousts-interim-president.html |title=Nigerian Military Leader Ousts Interim President |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=[[The Associated Press]] |date=18 November 2022 |page=A15 |access-date=29 April 2022 |archive-date=July 24, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200724005126/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/18/world/nigerian-military-leader-ousts-interim-president.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
** The first meeting of the [[Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation]] summit opens in [[Seattle]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.apec.org/meeting-papers/annual-ministerial-meetings/1993/1993_amm |title=1993 APEC Ministerial Meeting |publisher=[[APEC]] Secretariat |access-date=12 May 2022 |archive-date=June 14, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220614225211/https://www.apec.org/meeting-papers/annual-ministerial-meetings/1993/1993_amm |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[November 20]] – An Avioimpex [[Yakovlev Yak-42D]] crashes into Mount Trojani near [[Ohrid]], [[North Macedonia]]. All 8 crew members and 115 of the 116 passengers are killed.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19931120-1 |title=ASN Aircraft accident Yakovlev Yak-42D RA-42390 Ohrid Airport (OHD) |work=[[Aviation Safety Network]] |publisher=[[Flight Safety Foundation]] |access-date=10 April 2022 |archive-date=November 8, 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051108121209/https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19931120-1 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[November 28]] – ''[[The Observer]]'' reveals that a channel of communications has existed between the [[Provisional Irish Republican Army]] and the British government, despite the government's persistent denials.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/29/world/britain-concedes-it-secretly-made-contact-with-ira.html |last=Darnton |first=John |author-link=John Darnton |title=BRITAIN CONCEDES IT SECRETLY MADE CONTACT WITH I.R.A. |newspaper=The New York Times |date=29 November 1993 |page=A1 |access-date=15 May 2022 |archive-date=May 15, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220515075930/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/29/world/britain-concedes-it-secretly-made-contact-with-ira.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[November 30]]
** An agreement establishing the Permanent Tripartite Commission for East African Co-operation is signed.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.eac.int/eac-history |title=History of the EAC |publisher=[[East African Community]] |department=About EAC |access-date=15 May 2022 |archive-date=April 30, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220430025410/https://www.eac.int/eac-history |url-status=live }}</ref>
** U.S. President [[Bill Clinton]] signs the [[Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://bradycampaign.org/about/bio/sarah |publisher=[[Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence]] |title=Sarah Brady |department=Biographies |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121219041842/http://bradycampaign.org/about/bio/sarah |archive-date=19 December 2012 |access-date=10 April 2022}}</ref>

===December===
{{Main|December 1993}}
* [[December 2]]
** ''[[STS-61]]'': [[NASA]] launches the Space Shuttle ''[[Space Shuttle Endeavour|Endeavour]]'' on a mission to repair an optical flaw in the [[Hubble Space Telescope]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Dumoulin |first=Jim |title=STS-61 |url=https://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-61/mission-sts-61.html |date=29 June 2001 |publisher=[[NASA]] |access-date=15 October 2021 |archive-date=October 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211027182700/https://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-61/mission-sts-61.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
** [[Colombia]]n drug lord [[Pablo Escobar]] is gunned down by police.<ref>{{cite book |title=DEA History Book |chapter=1990 - 1994 |chapter-url=http://www.dea.gov/pubs/history/1990-1994.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060118010530/http://www.dea.gov/pubs/history/1990-1994.html |archive-date=18 January 2006 |publisher=[[U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration]] |access-date=15 October 2021}}</ref>
* [[December 5]]
** [[Omar Bongo]] is re-elected as [[President of Gabon]] in the country's first multiparty elections.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://africanelections.tripod.com/ga.html |title=Elections in Gabon |work=African Elections Database |date=20 February 2012 |access-date=15 October 2021 |archive-date=October 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211016084948/https://africanelections.tripod.com/ga.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
** [[Rafael Caldera Rodríguez]] is elected President of Venezuela for the second time, succeeding interim president [[Ramón José Velásquez]].<ref>{{cite web |editor-last=Ortiz de Zárate |editor-first=Roberto |title=Rafael Caldera Rodríguez |department=Venezuela |date=24 January 2019 |publisher=[[Fundación CIDOB]] |language=es |url=https://www.cidob.org/biografias_lideres_politicos/america_del_sur/venezuela/rafael_caldera_rodriguez |access-date=15 October 2021 |archive-date=October 28, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211028170530/https://www.cidob.org/biografias_lideres_politicos/america_del_sur/venezuela/rafael_caldera_rodriguez |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[December 7]]
** In [[Garden City, New York]], six people are murdered and 19 injured in the [[Long Island Rail Road massacre]], a racially motivated mass shooting perpetrated by Colin Ferguson, a black Jamaican immigrant.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1993/12/09/ny-train-killings-suspect-was-motivated-by-bias/37c1df9a-fb70-48d9-b176-81d3352e2fb7/?noredirect=on |last1=Gladwell |first1=Malcolm |author-link1=Malcolm Gladwell |last2=Stassen-Berger |first2=Rachel E. |title=N.Y. Train Killings Suspect Was 'Motivated By Bias' |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=December 9, 1993 |access-date=15 October 2021 |archive-date=December 26, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181226084417/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1993/12/09/ny-train-killings-suspect-was-motivated-by-bias/37c1df9a-fb70-48d9-b176-81d3352e2fb7/?noredirect=on |url-status=live }}</ref>
** The 32-member Transitional Executive Committee holds its first meeting<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/25451/ |last1=Padaychee |first1=Vishnu |last2=Fine |first2=Ben |author-link2=Ben Fine |title=The role and influence of the IMF on economic policy in South Africa's transition to democracy: the 1993 CCFF revisited |journal=Review of African Political Economy |date=July 2, 2018 |volume=46 |issue=159 |pages=157–167 |doi=10.1080/03056244.2018.1484352 |s2cid=158444181 |access-date=15 October 2021 |via=SOAS Research Online |archive-date=October 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211026204610/https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/25451/ |url-status=live |hdl=10.1080/03056244.2018.1484352 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> in [[Cape Town]], marking the first meeting of an official government body in South Africa with Black members.
** [[List of heads of state of Ivory Coast|President of Ivory Coast]] [[Félix Houphouët-Boigny]] dies at 88, the oldest African head of state.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/08/obituaries/felix-houphouet-boigny-ivory-coast-s-leader-since-freedom-in-1960-is-dead.html |last=Noble |first=Kenneth B. |title=Felix Houphouet-Boigny, Ivory Coast's Leader Since Freedom in 1960, Is Dead |journal=[[The New York Times]] |date=8 December 1993 |access-date=15 October 2021 |archive-date=October 29, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211029180545/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/08/obituaries/felix-houphouet-boigny-ivory-coast-s-leader-since-freedom-in-1960-is-dead.html |url-status=live }}</ref> He is succeeded four days later by [[Henri Konan Bédié]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/11/world/new-ivory-coast-president-is-named-by-supreme-court.html |title=New Ivory Coast President Is Named by Supreme Court |journal=The New York Times |agency=[[The Associated Press]] |date=11 December 1993 |page=7 |access-date=16 October 2021 |archive-date=October 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211016073636/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/11/world/new-ivory-coast-president-is-named-by-supreme-court.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[December 8]] – U.S. President [[Bill Clinton]] signs into law the [[North American Free Trade Agreement]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Clinton Signs NAFTA -- December 8, 1993 |work=American President: An Online Reference Resource |url=http://millercenter.org/academic/americanpresident/events/12_08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101010231531/http://millercenter.org/academic/americanpresident/events/12_08 |archive-date=10 October 2010 |publisher=[[University of Virginia|Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia]] |access-date=15 October 2021}}</ref>
* [[December 10]] – [[id Software]] releases the first-person shooter game ''[[Doom (1993 video game)|Doom]]''.
* [[December 11]]
** One of the three blocks of the Highland Towers near [[Kuala Lumpur]], [[Malaysia]] [[Highland Towers collapse|collapses]], killing 48.<ref>{{cite web |title=History Asia - The Highland Towers Disaster |publisher=[[A&E Television Networks]] |year=2008 |url=http://www.historyasia.com/synopsis.aspx?libId=1401&sId=826&sTime=1320 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110711171851/http://www.historyasia.com/synopsis.aspx?libId=1401&sId=826&sTime=1320 |archive-date=11 July 2011 |access-date=15 October 2021}}</ref>
** [[1993 Chilean presidential election]]: [[Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle]] is elected with 58% of the vote.<ref>{{cite book |last1=United States Central Intelligence Agency |title=The 1997 CIA World Factbook |date=1 March 1999 |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1662 |access-date=19 September 2023 |language=English |author1-link=United States Central Intelligence Agency |archive-date=October 22, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231022001929/https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1662 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[December 13]]
** Former [[Prime Minister of Canada]] [[Kim Campbell]] resigns as leader of the [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative Party]] and is succeeded as leader by [[Jean Charest]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Farnsworth |first=Clyde H. |title=Campbell Resigns as Tory Leader in Canada |work=The New York Times |date=14 December 1993 |page=A9 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/14/world/campbell-resigns-as-tory-leader-in-canada.html |access-date=15 October 2021 |archive-date=October 29, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211029174949/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/14/world/campbell-resigns-as-tory-leader-in-canada.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/kim-campbell |last=Boyko |first=John |title=Kim Campbell |encyclopedia=[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]] |date=11 August 2011 |publisher=[[Historica Canada]] |access-date=15 October 2021 |archive-date=October 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211016131926/https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/kim-campbell |url-status=live }}</ref>
** The [[Majilis]] of [[Kazakhstan]] approves the nuclear [[Non-Proliferation Treaty]] and agrees to dismantle the more than 100 missiles left on its territory by the fall of the USSR.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.nonproliferation.org/wp-content/uploads/npr/laumul12.pdf |last=Laumulin |first=Murat |title=Viewpoint: Nuclear Politics and the Future Security of Kazakhstan |translator-last=Boyle |translator-first=Catherine |journal=[[The Nonproliferation Review]] |date=Winter 1994 |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=61–65 |doi=10.1080/10736709408436540 |access-date=16 October 2021 |archive-date=March 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220324031034/https://www.nonproliferation.org/wp-content/uploads/npr/laumul12.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[December 15]] – The [[Uruguay Round]] of [[General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade]] (GATT) talks reach a successful conclusion after seven years.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Uruguay Round |url=http://www.wto.org/trade_resources/history/wto/urug_round.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060822200650/http://www.wto.org/trade_resources/history/wto/urug_round.htm |publisher=[[World Trade Organization]] |department=Trade Resources |archive-date=22 August 2006 |access-date=15 October 2021}}</ref>
* [[December 17]] – [[Brazil]]'s [[Supreme Federal Court|Supreme Court]] rules that former President [[Fernando Collor de Mello]] may not hold elected office again until 2000 due to [[political corruption]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Brooke |first=James |author-link=James Brooke (journalist) |title=Brazilian Court Reaffirms Ban on the Ex-President |journal=The New York Times |date=17 December 1993 |page=A9 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/17/world/brazilian-court-reaffirms-ban-on-the-ex-president.html |access-date=16 October 2021 |archive-date=October 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211016134330/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/17/world/brazilian-court-reaffirms-ban-on-the-ex-president.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[December 20]]
** The [[United Nations General Assembly]] votes to appoint a [[U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Brief history |publisher=[[OHCHR]] |url=https://www.ohchr.org/EN/ABOUTUS/Pages/BriefHistory.aspx |access-date=15 October 2021 |archive-date=March 8, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220308025355/https://www.ohchr.org/EN/AboutUs/Pages/BriefHistory.aspx |url-status=live }}</ref> 
** The first corrected images from the [[Hubble Space Telescope]] are taken.    
* [[December 21]]
** The [[Hungarian Parliament]] elects [[Péter Boross]] [[Prime Minister of Hungary]] following the death of [[József Antall]] on December 12.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dr. Boross Péter |website=Magyar Demokrata Fórum 2006 |language=hu |url=http://part.mdf.hu/index.php?akt_menu=881&amn=ftag&ft=boross&PHPSESSID=3bfd40ca307dbaa414ea0c442e58de0f |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060603172445/http://part.mdf.hu/index.php?akt_menu=881&amn=ftag&ft=boross&PHPSESSID=3bfd40ca307dbaa414ea0c442e58de0f |archive-date=3 June 2006 |access-date=15 October 2021}}</ref>
** Phil Vischer and Mike Nawrocki's [[VeggieTales]] is first released.                 
* [[December 30]]
** The [[Indian National Congress|Congress Party]] gains a parliamentary majority in India after the defection of 10 [[Janata Dal]] party lawmakers.
** Representatives of [[Israel]] and the [[Holy See]] sign the [[Fundamental Agreement Between the Holy See and the State of Israel]], preparing for the establishment of [[Holy See–Israel relations|diplomatic relations]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/secretariat_state/archivio/documents/rc_seg-st_19931230_santa-sede-israele_en.html |title=Fundamental Agreement between the Holy See and the State of Israel |date=30 December 1993 |website=[[vatican.va]] |access-date=16 October 2021 |archive-date=November 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211125171740/https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/secretariat_state/archivio/documents/rc_seg-st_19931230_santa-sede-israele_en.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
** [[Argentina]] passes a measure allowing President [[Carlos Menem]] and all future presidents to run for a second consecutive term. It also shortens presidential terms to four years and removes the requirement for the president to be [[Roman Catholic]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/30/world/argentine-senate-backs-menem-on-second-term.html |last=Nash |first=Nathaniel C. |author-link=Nathaniel C. Nash |title=Argentine Senate Backs Menem on Second Term |journal=The New York Times |date=30 December 1993 |page=A5 |access-date=16 October 2021 |archive-date=October 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211016141330/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/30/world/argentine-senate-backs-menem-on-second-term.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

== Births and deaths ==
{{Main|:Category:1993 births|Deaths in 1993}}

==Nobel Prizes==
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* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] – [[Kary Mullis]], [[Michael Smith (chemist)|Michael Smith]]
* [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|Economics]] – [[Robert W. Fogel]], [[Douglass North]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] – [[Toni Morrison]]
* [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] – [[Nelson Mandela]] and [[F. W. de Klerk]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] – [[Russell Alan Hulse]], [[Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr.]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Physiology or Medicine]] – [[Richard J. Roberts]], [[Phillip Allen Sharp]]

==References==
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==Sources==
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* {{cite book| title=1994 Book of the year| year=1994| editor=Trumbull, Charles P.| series=Encyclopædia Britannica| location=Chicago| isbn=0-85229-600-2| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/britannicabookof00daph}}
* {{cite book|title=Universalia 1994| year=1994| editor=Berani, Jacques| series=[[Encyclopædia Universalis]]| location=Paris| isbn=2-85229-321-8|language=fr}}
* {{cite book|title=Le Livre de l'Année 1994| year=1994| author=Harnois, Christiane (dir.)| publisher=Grolier| location=Montreal| isbn=0-7172-3019-8|language=fr}}
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