1993 in History (Part 5)

Events in History

Events 401 - 480 of 480

Nov 2 Rudy Giuliani wins the New York mayoral election, becomes 1st Republican mayor since 1965

Nov 4 Jean Chretien is appointed the Prime Minister of Canada by Governor General Ray Hnatyshyn

Nov 9 Serbian army fires on school in Sarajevo, 9 children died
Nov 9 Stari Most (the "old bridge", built in 1566) in Mostar, Bosnia, collapses after several days of bombing.
Nov 10 Slovakian government of Vladimír Mečiar forms

Nov 11 Pope John Paul II hospitalized for 2 days for fractured shoulder

Nov 13 7.1 seaquake east of Kamchatka
Nov 13 Chinese MD82 makes crash landing at Urumqi, 12 killed
Nov 13 Pakistani minister of Foreign affairs Faruk Leghari elected president
Nov 14 Puerto Rico votes against becoming the 51st US state
Nov 15 Howard Stern radio show premieres in Myrtle Beach SC on WYAV 104.1 FM
Nov 15 Joe Buttafuoco sentence to 6 months for statutory rape of Amy Fisher
Nov 15 13 Cuban refugees land in Florida after stealing a crop-duster in Cuba.

Nov 16 Russian President Yeltsin shuts Lenin museum

Nov 17 Gen. Sani Abacha leads a military coup in Nigeria that overthrows the government of Ernest Shonekan

Nov 17 General Sani Abacha leads a coup against Ernest Shonekan's transitional administration and returns the Nigerian government to military control
Nov 18 27 killed at prison in Morazan, El Salvador
Nov 18 Black & white leaders in South Africa approve new democratic constitution
Nov 18 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) passes US House of Representatives
Nov 18 North-Siberia record cold for November (-55°C)
Nov 19 Algerian Muslim fundamentalists uprising, 27 killed

Nov 20 Winnie Mandela's driver and bodyguard murdered in Johannesburg

Nov 20 Savings and Loan scandal: The United States Senate Ethics Committee issues a stern censure of California senator Alan Cranston for his "dealings" with savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating.
Nov 21 Neo-fascist MSI wins 36% of municipal elections in Rome
Nov 24 Brady bill passes establishing 5-day waiting period for US handgun sales
Nov 24 End of world, according to Ukrainian sect White Brotherhood
Nov 24 11 year old Robert Thompson and Jon Venables are convicted of the murder of English 2 year old James Bulger
Nov 25 Dutch Antilles government of Liberia-Peters falls
Nov 25 Failed bomb attack on Egyptian premier Atef Sedki, 1 dead
Nov 28 Carlos Reina wins Honduras presidential election

Nov 30 President Clinton signs Brady Gun Control Bill

Dec 1 Northwest Airlink plane crashes in Minn, killing 18
Dec 2 Dow-Jones hits record 3702.11
Dec 2 Space shuttle STS-61 (Endeavour 5), launches
Dec 4 Dan Jansen skates world record 500m (35.92 sec)
Dec 4 Johann Koss skates world record 5K (6:35.53)
Dec 4 A truce is concluded between the government of Angola and UNITA rebels.
Dec 5 Astronauts begin repair of Hubble telescope in space
Dec 5 Rafael Caldera elected President of Venezuela
Dec 5 The mayor of Wien (Vienna), Helmut Zilk, is wounded by a letter bomb.
Dec 6 Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 5 km 7:13.29
Dec 7 Henri Konan Bedie names himself President of Ivory coast
Dec 7 The Long Island Rail Road massacre: Passenger Colin Ferguson murders six people and injures 19 others on the LIRR in Nassau County, New York.

Dec 8 30 killed at religious rebellion in Algeria
Dec 8 Dow-Jones hits record 3734.53
Dec 8 Storm hits western Europe, 11 killed in England
Dec 9 Ivory Coast Premier Ouattara resigns
Dec 10 Dow Jones hits record 3740.67
Dec 11 Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle elected President of Chile
Dec 13 Deadline for Israeli troop withdrawal from Gaza, they don't
Dec 13 Dow Jones hits record 3764.43
Dec 13 Fire in textile factory in Fuzjou China, 60 killed
Dec 13 Space shuttle STS-61 (Endeavour 5), lands
Dec 13 "I Swear" single released by John Michael Montgomery (Billboard Song of the Year 1994)
Dec 14 Muslim fundamentalists murder 12 Kroates/Bosnians in Algeria
Dec 15 C-130 flies into a Philippines hill & explodes, 16 killed
Dec 15 Haitian premier Robert Malval resigns
Dec 15 Lee Aspen resigns as secretary of defense
Dec 15 Y-12 crashes at Phonesavanh, Laos: 18 killed

Dec 15 British Prime Minister John Major and Irish premier Reynolds signs Downing Street Declaration concerning Northern Ireland self determination

Dec 17 Muslims in Bangladesh call for the murder of feminist Taslima Nasrin
Dec 17 Kevin Scott skates world record 1000 m (1:12.54)
Dec 17 Northern Exposure star Barry Corbin falls off his horse
Dec 18 Kevin Scott skates world record 1K (1:12.54)
Dec 21 "The Sign" single released in the US by Ace of Base (Billboard Song of the Year 1994)
Dec 26 Antonov-26 crashes at Gyumri, Armenia, 36 killed
Dec 27 Dow-Jones hits record 3792.93
Dec 28 Dow-Jones hits record 3793.49
Dec 28 Dutch Antilles government of Yandi Paula forms

Dec 28 Andrea Bocelli makes his classical debut singing at a concert at Teatro Romolo Valli in Reggio Emilia

Deaths 401 - 403 of 403

Dec 31 Thomas J. Watson Jr., American businessman and politician (President of IBM, 1952-1971, US Ambassador to the Soviet Union, 1979-1981), dies of a stroke at 79
Dec 31 Zviad Gamsachurdia, President of Georgia SSR (1991-1993), suicide at 54
Dec 31 Brandon Teena, Transsexual, murdered (b. 1972)