1993

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1993 is a year in the 20th century. It is a common year.

Contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Nobel Prizes 4.1 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 5 Films released 6 Hit songs 7 New books

[edit] Events

• 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 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 United States states.
• January 19
  • IBM announces a $4.97 billion loss for 1992 which is the largest single-year corporate loss in United States history
  • 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 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)
  • A gunman kills two employees outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia
• January 26 - Václav Havel elected President of the Czech Republic
• March 17 - Six asteriods are discovered and are named after the members of Monty Python.

[edit] Births

• August 16 - Cameron Monaghan, actor

[edit] Deaths

• January 20 - Audrey Hepburn

[edit] Nobel Prizes

• Physics - Russell Alan Hulse, Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.
• Chemistry - Kary Mullis, Michael Smith
• Medicine - Richard J. Roberts, Philip Allen Sharp
• Literature - Toni Morrison
• Peace - Nelson Mandela and Frederik Willem de Klerk

[edit] Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel

• Robert Fogel, Douglas North

[edit] Films released

• Cool Runnings
• Demolition Man
• Free Willy
• The Fugituve
• Groundhog Day
• Jurassic Park
• Mrs. Doubtfire
• Nightmare Before Christmas
• Philadelphia
• The Piano
• Schindler's List
• Short Cuts
• Sleepless in Seattle
• The Three Musketeers

[edit] Hit songs

• "Ain't Nothing But a G Thang" - Snoop Doggy Dogg / Dr Dre
• "Award Tour" - A Tribe Called Quest
• "Bombtrack" - Rage Against the Machine
• "Both Sides Of The Story" - Phil Collins
• "Bullet In The Head" - Rage Against the Machine
• "Creep" - Radiohead
• "Cryin'" - Aerosmith
• "Deeper And Deeper" - Madonna
• "Human Behavior" - Björk
• "Heart Shaped Box" - Nirvana
• "Hey Jealousy" - Gin Blossoms
• "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" - Meat Loaf
• "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" - The Proclaimers
• "It Was a Good Day" - Ice Cube
• "Man On The Moon" - R.E.M.
• "On the Sea" - Vertical Horizon
• "Passin' Me By" - The Pharcyde
• "Pets" - Porno for Pyros
• "Plush" - Stone Temple Pilots
• "Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)" Digable Planets
• "Return of the Crazy One" Digital Underground
• "Rooster" - Alice in Chains
• "Sober" - Tool
• "Standing Outside The Fire" - Garth Brooks
• "Two Princes" - The Spin Doctors
• "The World Around Me" - King's X

[edit] New books

• Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years - Sue Townsend
• Band of Brothers - Stephen Ambrose
• Barnyard Dance - Sandra Boynton
• Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays - Stephen Hawking
• The Christmas Box - Richard Paul Evans
• The Client - John Grisham
• Complicity - Iain Banks
• The Emigrants - W.G. Sebald
• The Giver - Lois Lowry
• Honour Among Thieves - Jeffrey Archer
• The Hope - Herman Wouk
• In the Eye of the Sun - Ahdaf Soueif
• Lasher - Anne Rice
• Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
• Losing Eddie - Deborah Joy Corey
• Men at Arms - Terry Pratchett
• Moving Mars - Greg Bear
• The Night Manager - John le Carré
• Nightmares and Dreamscapes - Stephen King
• Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale - Miranda Seymour
• Pleading Guilty - Scott Turow
• Le Rocher de Tanios - Amin Maalouf
• The Scorpio Illusion - Robert Ludlum
• Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree - Tariq Ali
• Slow Waltz at Cedar Bend - Robert James Waller
• Too Big To Fail - Walter Stewart
• Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
• The Traitor and the Jew: Anti-Semitism and the Delirium of Extremist Right-Wing Nationalism in French Canada from 1929-1939 (Antisémitisme et nationalisme d'extrême-droite dans la province de Québec 1929-1939) - Esther Delisle
• Vanished - Danielle Steel
• Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions - Martin Amis
• The Wicca Spellbook - Gerina Dunwich
• Without Remorse - Tom Clancy