July 1993 in History

Events in History

Jul 2 Pope John Paul II hospitalized for Cat Scan test

Jul 6 John F. Kennedy Jr, gives notice of quitting as ADA in Manhattan

Jul 7 Guntis Ulmanis elected president of Latvia
Jul 7 Prodigy announces it will offer Cox newspapers
Jul 10 Melchior Ndadaye becomes 1st Hutu Burundi President, Sylvie Kinigi Prime Minister
Jul 10 Yobes Ondieki runs world record 10km (26:58.38)
Jul 12 7.8 earthquake hits Hokkaido Japan, 160 killed
Jul 14 Aeroflot starts non-stop flights between Moscow and NY
Jul 16 President Lissouba calls emergency rule in Congo-Brazzaville
Jul 16 S van Ruysdael's "Winter Landscape" sold for £705,500 in London

Jul 18 Afghan President Ishaq Khan and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif resign

Jul 19 President Clinton fires FBI director William Sessions

Jul 20 Fire in the press box at Atlanta Fulton County Stadium
Jul 22 Soyuz TM-17 lands
Jul 23 China Northwest Airlines BAe146-300 crashes at Yinchuan, 55 killed
Jul 25 Israeli offensive against terrorist bases in South Lebanon
Jul 25 The St James' Church massacre in Kenilworth, Cape Town by Azanian Peoples' Liberation Army
Jul 26 Boeing 737-500 crashes in South Korea, 66 killed
Jul 26 The first of four photos of Mars is taken by the Mars Observer, just under a month before the spacecraft failed in flight
Jul 27 Javier Sotomayor jumps world record 2.45 m high
Jul 27 Mafia bombs historical buildings in Rome, Milan and Vatican City, 5 killed
Jul 29 Israeli Court of Appeal overturns (5-0) conviction of John Demjaujuk, saying not enough evidence he is Concentration Camp Ivan the Terrible
Jul 31 Inkatha-arm forces killed 49 ANC-followers in Johannesburg
Jul 31 Prince Ronald "Ronnie" Mutebi crowned king of Uganda

Jul 13 Nathan Law, Hong Kong activist (Umbrella Movement), born in Shenzhen, China
Jul 24 Arissa Seagal, daughter of Kelly LeBrock & Steven Seagal

Jul 2 Sir Edward Dunlop, Australian war hero (b. 1907)
Jul 4 Felix White, choreographer (Black Vibrations Theatre), dies at 65
Jul 5 Harrison Salisbury, American journalist and author (NY Times correspondent in Moscow), dies at 84
Jul 6 Ruth Lady Fermoy, maternal grandmother of Diana, Princess of Wales, dies at 84
Jul 9 Jaap Meijer, Dutch historian and rabbi in Paramaribo, dies at 80
Jul 10 Masugi Ibuse, Japanese author (Kuroi ame (Black rain)), dies at 95
Jul 10 Ruth Krauss, author (Carrot Seed), dies at 91
Jul 11 Deng Yingchao, high ranking communist China official, dies at 88
Jul 11 Henri van Soede, sub commandant (WWII), dies at about 83
Jul 11 Kelly Ahrendt, 1st death by rabies in NY since 1954, dies
Jul 11 Sergey Vozovikov, cosmonaut, dies during underwater test at 34
Jul 12 Dan Eldon, British-Kenyan photojournalist, killed in Somalia while working for Reuters at 22
Jul 13 Edwin "Rick" Bakker, author (Rick's Report/AIDS Diary), dies at 31
Jul 15 Bobby Kent, alleged Florida bully murdered by his friends (b. 1973)
Jul 15 Stephen Jurika, American naval officer (WWII Doolittle raid over Tokyo), dies at 82
Jul 17 Ineke Shutter, choreography (Black Girl Goes to School), dies at 61

Jul 17 Scott Salmon, US choreographer (La Cage aux Folles), dies at 51
Jul 17 Vladimir Barmyn, Russian inventor (Stalinorgel), dies at 84
Jul 18 Sergei Vozovikov, Russian Air Force major and cosmonaut, dirowns in water recovery training accident at 35
Jul 18 Vladimir Pavlovich Barmin, Chief designer of Soviet launch pads, dies
Jul 20 Vince Foster, American lawyer and Deputy White House Counsel commits suicide aged 48
Jul 21 Henk Kersting, Dutch journalist (bureau chef Associated Press), dies at 88
Jul 24 Ben Polak, Dutch physician, communist and resistance fighter, dies at 79
Jul 25 Vincent Joseph Schaefer, American chemist and meteorologist (cloud seeding), dies at 87
Jul 26 Matthew Ridgway, American general (World War II, Korean War, NATO Supreme Commander) and Chief of Staff of the US Army (1953-55), dies of cardiac arrest at 98
Jul 29 AJA Quintus Bosz, Indonesian/Suriname lawyer, dies at 78
Jul 30 Edward Bernard Raczyński, Polish President-in-exile (1979-86), dies at 101
Jul 30 Frank L. Howley, American general (Commander of American sector of Berlin after WWII), dies at 90
Jul 30 John Castrios, 1st murder in Washington NH in 200 years, killed at 45
Jul 31 Baudouin I, King of Belgium (1951-93), dies from heart issues at 62
Jul 31 George Keyt, Sri Lankan painter, dies at 92
Jul 31 Paul Henry, US Republicans Congressional leader, dies at 51