June 1993 in History

Events in History

Event of Interest

Jun 5 Liberian Charles Taylors rebellion kills 550 fugitives

Jun 5 Somali warlord Aidids murders 23 Pakistani
Jun 6 6th Children's Miracle Network Telethon
Jun 6 Punsalmaagiyn Otsjirbat recognized as President of Mongolia
Jun 6 Ramiro de Leon Carpio elected President of Guatemala
Jun 8 Premier Marc Bazin of Haiti resigns
Jun 9 "Amantes" (1991) premieres in France
Jun 9 "Body Snatchers" (1993) premieres in France
Jun 9 "Ce que femme veut" (1993) premieres in France
Jun 9 "Passion Fish" (1992) premieres in France
Jun 9 "Tout capour ca!" (1993) premieres in France
Jun 9 "What's Love Got to Do with It" (1993) premieres
Jun 9 Tickets for Indians 1st season in Jacobs Field go on sale
Jun 13 Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani re-elected President of Iran
Jun 14 Japanese space probe Sakigake passes Earth

Event of Interest

Jun 14 Ruth Bader Ginsburg is nominated to the United States Supreme Court by President Bill Clinton

Jun 14 Tansu Ciller appointed 1st female premier of Turkey
Jun 17 Indians' Carlos Baerga hits 3 home runs against Detroit
Jun 18 Tōru Takemitsu's "Archipelago S" premieres in Aldeburgh England
Jun 21 English mathematician Andrew Wiles proves last theorem of French mathematician Pierre de Fermat after 356 years, the world's most difficult maths problem
Jun 21 STS-57 (Endeavour) launches into orbit
Jun 23 Lorena Gallo Bobbitt amputates husband's John Wayne Bobbitt's penis

Election of Interest

Jun 23 Nigeria's military dictator, General Ibrahim Babangida, annuls results of presidential elections and halts a return to democracy

Jun 23 United Nations authorizes worldwide oil embargo against Haiti
Jun 24 Arab terrorist group planning bombing of Holland and Lincoln Tunnels caught
Jun 24 Yale computer science professor Dr. David Gelernter loses the sight in one eye, the hearing in one ear, and part of his right hand after receiving a mailbomb from the Unabomber

Event of Interest

Jun 25 Kim Campbell becomes the 19th Prime Minister of Canada (although she would remain in office for less than five months)

Jun 25 Parliamentary election in Morocco
Jun 26 Rebecca Jones, 18, of Georgia, crowned America's Junior Miss

Event of Interest

Jun 26 The U.S. launches a cruise missile attack targeting Baghdad intelligence headquarters in retaliation for a thwarted assassination attempt against former President George H. W. Bush in April in Kuwait.

Jun 30 Richard Jacobs announces Chief Wahoo will go to Jacobs Field

Birthdays in History

Jun 4 Christian Alexander Mowatt, grandson of English princess Alexandra

Breonna Taylor (1993-2020)

Jun 5 African American medical technician who was shot and killed by police officers in her home, born in Grand Rapids, Michigan

Jun 7 Jordan Fry, American actor (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), born in Spokane, Washington
Jun 16 Alice Ann Newman, daughter of Gretchen & Randy
Jun 24 Primera, an Andean condor, hatched at Cleveland Zoo, the 5th born in captivity (Cleveland, Ohio)
Jun 29 Angela & Amy Lakeberg, American Siamese twins (separated on Aug 20th), born in Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Illinois

Weddings in History

Naruhito

Jun 9 Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito weds Masaka Owada

Jun 10 Abdullah II of Jordan (31) weds Rania Al-Yassin (22) in Amman, Jordan
Jun 19 Mandy Smith (Bill Wyman's ex-wife) weds Pat van den Hauwe

Divorces in History

Jun 23 Lindsay Wagner (Bionic Woman) files for divorce from Lawrence Mortorff

Deaths in History

Jun 2 French JFM of Thiel, Dutch 2nd chamber chairman (1963-72), dies at 86
Jun 2 Norton Simon, American industrialist (Hunts Foods, Norton Simon Museum), dies at 86
Jun 6 James Bridges, writer/director (Paper Chase), dies of cancer at 57
Jun 6 Peter Tazelaar, adjutant of Dutch queen Wilhelmina, dies at 73
Jun 8 René Bousquet, French Vichy-police chief (deported Jews), dies at 84
Jun 8 Root Boy Slim [Foster MacKenzie III], American entertainer, dies at 48
Jun 9 Ian Mikardo, British politician, dies
Jun 11 Muriel C. Bradbrook, English writer (Rise of Common Player), dies at 84
Jun 13 Donald "Deke" K Slayton, US major/astronaut (Apollo 18), dies at 69
Jun 14 Vincent T Hamlin, cartoonist (Alley Oop), dies at 93
Jun 15 John Connally Jr, American politician, 39th Governor of Texas, and federal treasurer who was critically wounded during the assassination of Kennedy, dies of pulmonary fibrosis at 76
Jun 15 Mahfoud Boucebi, Algerian psychiatrist, murdered
Jun 15 Vera, scarf/linen designer, dies of cardiac arrest at 87
Jun 17 Angus Suttie, English potter and teacher of art ceramics, dies of AIDS at 46
Jun 17 French of Nouhuys, civil servant in Indonesia, dies at 88
Jun 19 James Benton Parsons, American judge, 1st African American federal judge, dies at 81

William Golding (1911-1993)

Jun 19 English author (Lord of the Flies, Nobel Prize for Literature 1983), dies at 81

Jun 22 (Thelma Catherine) "Pat" Nixon [née Ryan], American First Lady (1969-74), dies of lung cancer at 81
Jun 22 Hannah Troy, fashion designer (petite), dies of a heart attack at 93
Jun 22 M'hammed Boukhozba, Algerian sociologist, murdered at 52
Jun 26 Catherine Leno, mother of The Tonight Show host Jay, dies of cancer at 82
Jun 26 Jack Bittner, entertainer, dies
Jun 26 William H. Riker, American political scientist (b. 1920)
Jun 27 Wolfgang Grams, German RAF-terrorist, shot to death at 40