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1993
Millennium:
Millennium: 2nd millennium Burmese calendar 1355
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Years: 1990 1991 1992 – 1993 – 1994 1995 1996 — to —
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Subject Coptic calendar 1709–1710
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Leaders Islamic calendar 1413–1414
Sovereign states – State leaders – Religious leaders – Law Japanese calendar Heisei 5
(平成5年)
Birth and death categories
Korean calendar 4326
Births – Deaths
Minguo calendar ROC 82
Establishments and disestablishments categories
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Establishments – Disestablishments
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Unix time 725846400–757382399
Works – Introductions
1993 in other calendars MCMXCIII)
1993 (MCMXCIII was a common year that started on a
Gregorian calendar 1993 Friday. In the Gregorian calendar, it was the 1993rd year
MCMXCIII in the Common Era, or of Anno Domini; the 993rd year
of the 2nd millennium; the 93rd year of the 20th century;
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and the 4th of the 1990s.
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Events
Bahá’í calendar 149–150 January
Bengali calendar 1400 • January 1
• Dissolution of Czechoslovakia: Slovakia and the
Berber calendar 2943
Czech Republic separate in the so-called Velvet
British Regnal year 41 Eliz. 2 – 42 Eliz. 2 Divorce.
• The European Community eliminates trade
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barriers and creates a European single market.
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• EuroNews is launched in Europe. • January 14 – The Polish ferry M/S Jan Heweliusz sinks
• ITV companies GMTV, Carlton Television, off the coast of Rügen in the Baltic Sea, killing 54
Meridian Broadcasting and Westcountry people.
Television start broadcasting, replacing TV-am, • January 15 – Salvatore Riina, the Mafia boss known
Thames Television, TVS and TSW respectively. as ’The Beast’, is arrested in Palermo, Sicily after 23
• January 3 – In Moscow, George H. W. Bush and Boris years as a fugitive.
Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction • January 19
Treaty. • Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) signed.
• IBM announces a $4.97 billion loss for 1992, the
largest single-year corporate loss in United
States history to date.
• 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. Iraq then informs UNSCOM
that it will be able to resume its flights.
• January 20 – Bill Clinton succeeds George H.W. Bush
as the 42nd President of the United States.
• January 24 – In Turkey, thousands protest the
murder of journalist Uğur Mumcu.
• January 25
• Mir Aimal Kasi fires a rifle and kills 2 employees
outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
• Social democrat Poul Nyrup Rasmussen succeeds
conservative Poul Schlüter as Prime Minister of
Denmark.
• January 26 – Václav Havel is elected President of the
Czech Republic.
Bill Clinton inaugurated as President of the United States. • January 31 – Super Bowl XXVII: The Buffalo Bills
become the first team to lose 3 consecutive Super
• January 5 Bowls as they are defeated by the Dallas Cowboys,
• The state of Washington executes Westley Allan 52–17.
Dodd by hanging (the first legal hanging in
America since 1965). February
• $7.4 million USD is stolen from Brinks Armored
Car Depot in Rochester, New York in the 5th
largest robbery in U.S. history. Four men, Samuel
Millar, Father Patrick Moloney, former Rochester
Police officer Thomas O’Connor, and Charles
McCormick, all of whom have ties to the
Provisional Irish Republican Army, are accused.
• M/V Braer, a Liberian oil tanker, runs aground off
the Scottish island of Mainland, 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 – The Bombay Riots take place The aftermath of the World Trade Center bombing.
in the city now known as Mumbai.
• January 7 – The Fourth Republic of Ghana is • February 4 – Members of the right-wing Austrian
inaugurated, with Jerry Rawlings as president. FPÖ split to form the Liberal Forum in protest
against the increasing nationalistic bent of the party.
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• February 5 – Belgium becomes a federal monarchy violating his civil rights when they beat him during
rather than a unitary kingdom. an arrest.
• February 8 – General Motors Corporation sues NBC, • March 11 – Janet Reno is confirmed by the United
after Dateline NBC allegedly rigged 2 crashes showing States Senate and sworn in the next day, becoming
that some GM pickups can easily catch fire if hit in the first female Attorney General of the United
certain places. NBC settles the lawsuit the following States.
day. • March 12
• February 10 • 1993 Bombay bombings: Several bombs explode
• Lien Chan is named by Lee Teng-Hui to succeed in Bombay, India, killing 257 and injuring
Hau Pei-tsun as Premier of the Republic of China. hundreds more.
• Mani Pulite scandal: Italian legislator Claudio • North Korea nuclear weapons program: North
Martelli resigns, followed by various politicians Korea announces that it plans to withdraw from
over the next 2 weeks. the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and refuses
• February 11 – Janet Reno is selected by President to allow inspectors access to nuclear sites.
Clinton as Attorney General of the United States. • March 13–March 15 – The Great Blizzard of 1993
• February 12 – Two year old James Bulger is abducted, strikes the eastern U.S., bringing record snowfall and
tortured and murdered by two 10 year old boys, Jon other severe weather all the way from Cuba to
Venables and Robert Thompson. Both are later Quebec; it reportedly kills 184.
charged. See Murder of James Bulger. • March 13 – Australian federal election, 1993: The
• February 14 Australian Labor Party stays in power despite poor
• Glafkos Klerides defeats incumbent George economic results.
Vasiliou in the Cypriot presidential election. • March 17 – The PKK announces a unilateral ceasefire
• Albert Zafy defeats Didier Ratsiraka in the in Iraq.
Madagascar presidential election. • March 20 – Warrington bomb attacks: An IRA bomb
• February 17 – A ferry sinks in Haiti, killing explodes in Warrington Town Centre and kills 2
approximately 1,215 out of 1,500 passengers. children, Jonathan Ball and Tim Parry.
• February 22 – UN Security Council Resolution 808 is • March 22 – The Intel Corporation ships the first P5
voted on, deciding that "an international tribunal Pentium chips.
shall be established" to prosecute violations of • March 24
international law in Yugoslavia. The tribunal will is • The Israeli Knesset elects Ezer Weizman as
established on May 25 by Resolution 827. President of Israel.
• February 24 – Prime Minister of Canada Brian • South Africa officially abandons its nuclear
Mulroney resigns amidst political and economic weapons programme. President de Klerk
turmoil. Kim Campbell, his successor, becomes announces that the country’s 6 warheads had
Canada’s first female Prime Minister. already been dismantled in 1990.
• February 26 – World Trade Center bombing: In New • England Tyanah Graham is born
York City, a van bomb parked below the North • March 27
Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, killing 6 • Jiang Zemin becomes President of the People’s
and injuring over 1,000. Republic of China.
• February 28 – Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and • Following a rash of integrist murders, Algeria
Firearms agents raid the Branch Davidian compound breaks diplomatic relations with Iran, accusing
in Waco, Texas, with a warrant to arrest leader David the country of interfering in its interior affairs.
Koresh on federal firearms violations. Four agents • Mahamane Ousmane is elected president of
and 5 Davidians die in the raid and a 51-day standoff Niger.
begins. • March 28 – French legislative election, 1993: Gaullists
win a majority and Édouard Balladur becomes Prime
March Minister.
• March 4 – Authorities announce the capture of • March 29 – The 65th Academy Awards, hosted by
suspected World Trade Center bombing conspirator Billy Crystal, are held at the Dorothy Chandler
Mohammad Salameh. Pavilion in Los Angeles, California, with Unforgiven
• March 5 – Macedonian Palair Flight 305, a F-100 on a winning Best Picture.
flight to Zurich, crashes shortly after take-off from
Skopje killing 83 of the 97 on board. April
• March 9 – Rodney King testifies at the federal trial of • April – The Kuwaiti government claims to uncover
4 Los Angeles, California police officers accused of an Iraqi assassination plot against former U.S.
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President George H.W. Bush shortly after his visit to • A Tamil Tigers suicide bomber assassinates
Kuwait. Two Iraqi nationals confess to driving a car- President Ranasinghe Premadasa of Sri Lanka.
bomb into Kuwait on behalf of the Iraqi Intelligence • May 4 – UNOSOM II assumes the Somalian duties of
Service.[1] the dissolved UNITAF.
• April 1 – The Vatican orders the moving of the • May 9 – Juan Carlos Wasmosy becomes the first
Carmelite convent at Auschwitz. democratically elected President of Paraguay in
• April 6 – A nuclear accident occurs at Tomsk 7 in nearly 40 years.
Russia. • May 15 – Niamh Kavanagh wins the Eurovision Song
• April 8 – The Republic of Macedonia is admitted to Contest for Ireland with "In Your Eyes".
the United Nations. • May 16
• April 10 – African National Congress activist Chris • The Grand National Assembly of Turkey elects
Hani is assassinated in South Africa. Prime Minister Süleyman Demirel as President of
• April 16 – Bosnian War: the enclave of Srebrenica is Turkey.
declared a UN-protected "safe area". • After Demirel becomes the president the acting
• April 17 – Laurence Powell and Stacey Koon are prime minister of Turkey is Erdal İnönü of SHP
found guilty in the second Rodney King trial. for 40 days.
• April 19 • May 24 – Eritrea gains independence from Ethiopia.
• A 51-day stand-off at the Branch Davidian • May 27 – A car bomb at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence
compound near Waco, Texas, ends with a fire kills 5; the Mafia is suspected.
that kills 76 people, including David Koresh. • May 28 – Eritrea and Monaco gain entry to the
• South Dakota governor George Mickelson and United Nations.
seven others are killed when a state-owned • May 29 – The first Life Ball is taking place in Vienna,
aircraft crashes near Dubuque, Iowa. Austria. In 2011, the event is named the largest
• April 22 public-charity on HIV and AIDS in Europe.
• In Washington, DC, the Holocaust Memorial
Museum is dedicated. June
• 18-year-old student Stephen Lawrence is stabbed • June 1
to death in London, England; the attack is • Large protests erupt against Slobodan Milošević’s
believed to have been racially motivated. regime in Belgrade; opposition leader Vuk
• April 23 Drašković and his wife Danica are arrested.
• The World Health Organization declares • President of Guatemala Jorge Serrano Elías is
tuberculosis a Global Emergency. forced to flee the country after an attempted
• Eritreans vote overwhelmingly for independence self-coup.
from Ethiopia in a United Nations-monitored • Burundian presidential election, 1993: The first
referendum. multiparty elections in Burundi since the
• April 26 – Oscar Luigi Scalfaro appoints Carlo Azeglio country’s independence lead to the election of
Ciampi Prime Minister of Italy. Melchior Ndadaye, leader of the Front for
• April 27 Democracy in Burundi. The next day’s legislative
• Yemeni parliamentary election, 1993: The election sees his party win with an overwhelming
General People’s Congress wins a plurality of 121 majority.
seats. • June 5
• All members of the Zambia national football team • The National Assembly of Venezuela designates
die in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon in route Ramón José Velásquez as successor of suspended
to Dakar, Senegal. President Carlos Andrés Pérez.
• April 28 – An executive order requires the United • 24 Pakistani troops in the UN forces are killed in
States Air Force to allow women to fly war planes. Mogadishu, Somalia.
• April 30 – Tennis star Monica Seles is stabbed in the • June 6
back by an obsessed fan of rival Steffi Graf at a • Following the Revolutionary Nationalist
tournament in Hamburg, Germany. Movement’s victory, Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada
becomes president of Bolivia.
May • Mongolia holds its first direct presidential
• May 1 elections.
• Pierre Bérégovoy, former prime minister of • June 8 – The PKK-declared ceasefire ends in Iraq.
France, commits suicide. • June 14 – Multipartyists win a referendum on the
future of the one-party system in Malawi.
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• June 18 – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq refuses to • July 7 – Hurricane Calvin lands in Mexico. It is the
allow UNSCOM weapons inspectors to install remote- second Pacific hurricane on record to land in Mexico
controlled monitoring cameras at 2 missile engine in July, and kills 34.
test stands. • July 12 – A magnitude 7.8 earthquake off Hokkaidō,
• June 20 Japan launches a devastating tsunami that kills 202
• A 7.5 earthquake hits Japan, killing 385 people. on the small island of Okushiri, Hokkaido.
• John Paxson’s 3-point shot in Game 6 of the NBA • July 16–July 17 – In Estonia, the majority Russian
Finals helps the Chicago Bulls secure a 99–98 win cities of Narva and Sillamäe organize illegal
over the Phoenix Suns, and their third referendums on "territorial autonomy" to protest
consecutive championship. new citizenship laws.
• June 22 – Japan’s New Party Sakigake breaks away • July 19
from the Liberal Democratic Party. • Japanese general election, 1993: The loss of
• June 23 – In Manassas, Virginia, Lorena Bobbitt cuts majority of the Liberal Democratic Party results
off the penis of her husband John Wayne Bobbitt. in a coalition taking power.
• June 24 • U.S. President Bill Clinton announces his ’Don’t
• A Unabomber bomb injures computer scientist ask, don’t tell’ policy regarding gays in the
David Gelernter at Yale University. American military.
• Andrew Wiles wins worldwide fame after • July 20 – White House deputy counsel Vince Foster
presenting his proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem, a commits suicide in Virginia.
problem that had been unsolved for more than 3 • July 23 – Candelária massacre: Brazilian police
centuries. officers kill 8 street kids in Rio de Janeiro.
• June 25 • July 26
• Kim Campbell becomes the 19th, and first female, • Miguel Indurain wins the 1993 Tour de France.
Prime Minister of Canada. • Asiana Airlines Flight 733 crashes into Mt. Ungeo
• Tansu Çiller of DYP forms the new government of in Haenam, South Korea; 68 die.
Turkey. • July 27 – Windows NT 3.1, the first version of
• Zoran Lilić succeeds Dobrica Ćosić as President of Microsoft’s line of Windows NT operating systems, is
Yugoslavia. released to manufacturing.
• The litas is introduced in Lithuania. • July 29 – The Israeli Supreme Court acquits accused
• Jacques Attali resigns as President of the Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk of all
European Bank for Reconstruction and charges and he is set free.
Development. • July 31 – King Baudouin I of Belgium dies.
• June 26–June 28 – Typhoon Koryn causes massive
damage to the Philippines, China and Macau. August
• June 27 • August 4
• U.S. President Bill Clinton orders a cruise missile • A federal judge sentences Los Angeles Police
attack on Iraqi intelligence headquarters in the Department officers Stacey Koon and Laurence
Al-Mansur District of Baghdad, in response to an Powell to 30 months in prison for violating
Iraqi plot to assassinate former U.S. President motorist Rodney King’s civil rights.
George H. W. Bush during his visit to Kuwait in • The Japanese government issues the Kono
mid-April. Statement, acknowledging the comfort women’s
• In Bad Kleinen, Germany, GSG 9 troopers arrest (sex slaves) deportation.
terrorists Birgit Hogefeld and Wolfgang Grams. • August 5
• The discovery of the Tel Dan Stele, the first
July archaeological confirmation of the existence of
• July 2 – An integrist mob sets fire to the hotel where the Davidic line, is announced.
The Satanic Verses translator Aziz Nesin resides in • Magic: the Gathering undergoes its first general
Sivas, Turkey, killing 37. release.
• July 5 – Iraq disarmament crisis: UN inspection • August 6 – According to Japanese government and
teams leave Iraq. Iraq then agrees to UNSCOM TBS networks reports, torrential rain and mudslides
demands and the inspection teams return. kill 72 in Kagoshima, Japan.
• July 7–July 9 – The 19th G7 summit is held in Tokyo, • August 9 – King Albert II of Belgium is sworn into
Japan. office 9 days after the death of his brother, King
Baudouin I.
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• August 13 – Over 130 die in the collapse of Royal • September 23 – The International Olympic
Plaza Hotel at Nakhon Ratchasima in Thailand’s Committee selects Sydney, Australia to host the 2000
worst hotel disaster. Summer Olympics.
• August 17 – For the first time, the public is allowed • September 24 – The Cambodian monarchy is
inside Buckingham Palace. restored, with Norodom Sihanouk as king.
• August 19 – In Norway, Varg Vikernes is arrested and • September 26
charged with the murder of Euronymous, of • The first mission in Biosphere 2 ends after 2
Mayhem; he receives a 21-year sentence for this and years.
other crimes. • PoSAT-1 (the first Portuguese satellite) is
• August 21 – NASA loses radio contact with the Mars launched on board French rocket Ariane 4.
Observer orbiter 3 days before the spacecraft is • September 27 – War in Abkhazia – Fall of Sukhumi:
scheduled to enter orbit around Mars. Eduard Shevardnadze accuses Russia of passive
• August 28 – Ong Teng Cheong becomes the first complicity.
President of Singapore elected by the population. • September 30 – An earthquake centered in Killari,
• August 30 – Russia completes removing its troops Maharashtra, India kills over 10,000.
from Lithuania.
October
September • October 3 – U.S. Army conducts Operation Gothic
Serpent in the city of Mogadishu, Somalia using Task
Force Ranger. Two UH-60 Blackhawks are shot down
and the operation leaves over 1000 Somalians dead
and over 73 Americans WIA, 19 KIA, and 1 captured.
Also known as the Battle of Mogadishu.
• October 4 – The Russian constitutional crisis
culminates with Russian military and security forces
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.
PLO leader Yasir Arafat and Israeli prime minister Yitzhak
• The papal encyclical Veritatis Splendor is
Rabin, with US President, Bill Clinton.
promulgated.
• October 10 – 292 are killed when the South Korean
• September 13
ferry Seohae capsizes off Pusan, South Korea.
• Norwegian parliamentary election, 1993: The
• October 11–October 28 – The UNMIH is prevented
Labour Party wins a plurality of the seats, and
from entering Haiti. On October 18, economic
Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland retains
sanctions (abolished in August) are reinstated.
office.
• October 13
• PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli prime
• Greek legislative election, 1993: Andreas
minister Yitzhak Rabin shake hands in
Papandreou begins his second term as Prime
Washington D.C., after signing a peace accord.
Minister of Greece.
• September 15–September 21 – Hurricane Gert (1993)
• The fifth summit of the Francophonie opens in
crosses from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean
Mauritius.
through Central America and Mexico.
• October 19 – Benazir Bhutto becomes the first
• September 17 – Russian troops withdraw from
elected woman to lead a post-colonial Muslim state,
Poland.
in Pakistan.
• September 19 – Polish parliamentary election, 1993:
• October 21 – A coup in Burundi results in the death
A coalition of the Democratic Left Alliance and the
of president Melchior Ndadaye and sparks the
Polish People’s Party led by Waldemar Pawlak comes
Burundi Civil War.
into power.
• October 25 – Canadian federal election, 1993: Jean
• September 22 – Big Bayou Canot train disaster: A
Chrétien and his Liberal Party defeat the governing
bridge collapses as the Sunset Limited crosses it,
Progressive Conservative Party, which falls to an
killing 47.
historic low of 2 seats.
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• October 30 – Greysteel massacre: Three members of December
the UDA, a loyalist paramilitary group, attacked a
• December 1 – A train crash at Tattenham Corner
crowded bar in Greysteel, Northern Ireland with
railway station lead to the introduction of the
firearms, killing eight civilians and wounding
current drugs and alcohol policy for railways in the
thirteen. The bar was targeted because it was in an
UK.
Irish nationalist and Catholic area.
• December 2
• STS-61: NASA launches the Space Shuttle
November Endeavour on a mission to repair an optical flaw
• November 1 – The Maastricht Treaty takes effect, in the Hubble Space Telescope.
formally establishing the European Union. • The September 6 merger between Renault and
• November 5 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom Volvo fails; Volvo CEO Pehr G. Gyllenhammar
passes the Railways Act, setting out the procedures resigns.
for privatisation of British Rail. • December 5 – Rafael Caldera Rodríguez is elected
• November 9 – Bosnian Croat forces destroy the Stari President of Venezuela for the second time,
most, or Old Bridge of Mostar, Bosnia and succeeding interim president Ramón José Velásquez.
Herzegovina, by tank fire. • December 7
• November 11 • Colin Ferguson opens fire with his Ruger 9 mm
• Microsoft releases Windows 3.11 for Workgroups pistol on a Long Island Rail Road train, killing 6
to manufacturing. and injuring 19.
• Sri Lankan civil war – Battle of Pooneryn: Over • The 32-member Transitional Executive
400 Sri Lankan military are killed. Committee holds its first meeting in Cape Town,
• November 12 – London Convention: Marine dumping marking the first meeting of an official
of radioactive waste is outlawed. government body in South Africa with Black
• November 17–November 22 – The North American members.
Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) passes the legislative • President of Côte d’Ivoire Félix Houphouët-
houses in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Boigny dies at 83, the oldest African head of
• November 18 state. He is succeeded 3 days later by Henri
• In a status referendum, Puerto Rico residents Konan Bédié.
vote with a slim margin to maintain • December 8 – U.S. President Bill Clinton signs into
Commonwealth status. law the North American Free Trade Agreement.
• In South Africa, 21 political parties approve a • December 10 – id Software releases Doom, a seminal
new constitution. first-person shooter that uses advanced 3D graphics
• The first meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic for computer games.
Cooperation opens in Seattle. • December 11
• November 20 • Chilean presidential election, 1993: Eduardo Frei
• Savings and loan crisis: The United States Senate Ruiz-Tagle is elected with 58% of the vote.
Ethics Committee issues a stern censure of • A variety of Soviet space program paraphernalia
California senator Alan Cranston for his dealings are put to auction in Sotheby’s New York, and
with savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating. sell for a total of US$6.8M. One of the items is
• An Avioimpex Yakovlev Yak-42D crashes into Lunokhod 1 and its spacecraft Luna 17; they sell
Mount Trojani near Ohrid, Macedonia. The for $68,500.
aircraft was on a flight from Geneva, Switzerland • December 12 – Péter Boross becomes Prime Minister
to Skopje, but had been diverted to Ohrid due to of Hungary following the death of József Antall.
poor weather conditions at the Skopje airport. • December 13
All 8 crew members and 115 of the 116 • Canadian Prime Minister Kim Campbell resigns
passengers are killed. as head of the Conservative Party, to be
• November 28 – The Observer reveals that a channel of succeeded by Jean Charest.
communications has existed between the IRA and • The Majilis of Kazakhstan approves the nuclear
the British government, despite the government’s Non-Proliferation Treaty, and agrees to
persistent denials. dismantle the more than 100 missiles left on its
• November 30 – Agreement establishing the territory by the fall of the USSR.
Permanent Commission for East African Co- • December 15
operation signed. • Downing Street Declaration: The United Kingdom
commits itself to the search for an answer to the
problems of Northern Ireland.
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• The Uruguay Round of General Agreement on • The Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform succeeds
Tariffs and Trade (GATT) talks reach a successful in having the Irish sodomy law reformed.
conclusion after 7 years.
• December 16 – Brazil’s Supreme Court rules that
former President Fernando Collor de Mello may not
Births
hold elected office again until 2000 due to political
corruption. January
• December 18 – Omar Bongo is re-elected as President • January 4 – Scott Redding, English Grand Prix
of Gabon in the country’s first multiparty elections. motorcycle racer
• December 20 • January 9 – Ashley Argota, American actress
• The United Nations General Assembly votes • January 12
unanimously to appoint a UN High Commissioner • Aika Mitsui, Japanese singer
for Human Rights. • Zayn Malik, Member of British-Irish boyband One
• The first corrected images from the Hubble Direction
Telescope are taken. • January 18 – Morgan York, American actress
• December 22 – The interim South African • January 26 – Cameron Bright, Canadian actor
constitution is approved by Parliament 237–45. • January 29 – Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, Japanese Model,
• December 29 – Argentina passes a measure allowing Blogger, and Recording Artist
President Carlos Saul Menem and all future
presidents to run for a second term. It also shortens February
presidential terms to 4 years and removes the • February 6 – Tinashe, American actress and singer
requirement for the president to be Roman Catholic. • February 7 – David Dorfman, American actor
• December 30 • February 9 – Parimarjan Negi, Chess prodigy from
• Israel and the Vatican establish diplomatic India
relations. • February 12 – Jennifer Stone, American actress
• The Congress Party gains a parliamentary • February 14 – Shane Harper, American actor and
majority in India after the defection of 10 Janata singer
Dal party lawmakers. • February 16 – Mike Weinberg, American former child
actor
Date unknown • February 17
• The second World Parliament of Religions is held in • Marc Márquez, Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle
Chicago. racer
• U.S. President Bill Clinton sends 6 American • Philip Wiegratz, German actor
warships to Haiti, to enforce United Nations trade • February 19 – Victoria Justice, American actress and
sanctions against the military-led regime in that singer
country. • February 23 – Kasumi Ishikawa, Japanese table tennis
• The Mississippi and Missouri Rivers flood large player
portions of the American Midwest. • February 26 – Taylor Dooley, American actress
• Severe floods hit South Asia, killing over 4,000
people in Bangladesh, India and Nepal. March–April
• The European Exchange Rate Mechanism is put in • March 24 – Grace Cassidy, English Actress
crisis, mainly from speculation against the French • March 17 – Julia Winter, Swedish-born English
Franc. actress
• Over a dozen people are killed by the new • April 2 – Aaron Kelly, American singer
Hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome, mainly in • April 8 – Jon Kempin, American footballer
the Southwestern United States. • April 15 – Madeleine Martin, American television
• Wildfires in California destroy over 16,000 acres actress/voice actress
(65 km2) and 700 homes. • April 16 – Mirai Nagasu, Japanese-American figure
• Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time becomes skater
the longest running book on the bestseller list of The • April 18 – Nathan Sykes, British Singer
Sunday Times ever. • April 25 – Shiloh, Canadian singer-songwriter
• The Oslo Accords negotiations begin.
• Many foreigners are murdered by rebel groups in May
Algeria.
• May 9 – Ryosuke Yamada, Japanese actor and singer
• May 10 – Mirai Shida, Japanese actress
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• May 12 – Anthony Gale, Member of the Canadian December
National Sledge Hockey Team
• December 5 – Ross Barkley, English footballer
• May 13 – Debby Ryan, American actress
• December 6 – Elián González, Cuban refugee
• May 14 – Miranda Cosgrove, American actress and
• December 7 – Jasmine Villegas, American singer
singer
• December 8 – AnnaSophia Robb, American actress
• May 16 – IU, South Korean singer and actress
• December 22 – Aliana Lohan, American actress and
• May 20 – Caroline Zhang, American figure skater
singer
June
• June 6 – Frida Gustavsson, Swedish model Deaths
• June 7
• Jordan Fry, American actor January
• Park Ji-yeon, South Korean singer and actress
• June 10 – Scott McLaughlin, New Zealand racer
• June 15 – Kanna Arihara, Japanese singer
• June 26 – Ariana Grande, American actress
July
• July 1 – Raini Rodriguez, American actress
• July 5 – Cody Klop, American actor
• July 26
• Taylor Momsen, American actress
• Elizabeth Gillies, American actress
• July 28 – Cher Lloyd, The X Factor (UK) finalist
August
• August 1 – Leon Thomas III, American actor and
singer
• August 3 – Yurina Kumai, Japanese singer
• August 5 – Suzuka Ohgo, Japanese child actress
• August 11 – Alyson Stoner, American actress and
dancer
• August 12 – Ewa Farna, Polish singer
• August 16 – Cameron Monaghan, American actor
• August 17 – Sarah Sjöström, Swedish swimmer
• August 26 – Keke Palmer, American actress and
singer Audrey Hepburn
• August 29 – Liam Payne, Member of British-Irish
boyband One Direction • January 6
• Dizzy Gillespie, American jazz trumpeter,
September–November bandleader, and composer (b. 1917)
• Richard Mortensen, Danish painter (b. 1910)
• September 1 – Ilona Mitrecey, French singer
• Rudolf Nureyev, Russian dancer (b. 1938)
• October 4 – Sam Earle, Canadian actor
• January 15 – Sammy Cahn, American lyricist (b. 1913)
• October 8
• January 16 – Glenn Corbett, American actor (b. 1930)
• Angus T. Jones, American actor
• January 18 – Eleanor Burford (Jean Plaidy, Elbur
• Molly C. Quinn, American actress
Ford, Kathleen Kellow, Ellalice Tate, Anna Percival,
• October 9 – Scotty McCreery, American singer
Victoria Holt, Philippa Carr), English writer (b. 1906)
• October 20 – David Bolarinwa, British sprinter
• January 20
• October 29 – India Eisley, American actress
• Kōbō Abe, Japanese author (b. 1924)
• November 21 – Elena Myers, American racer
• Audrey Hepburn, Belgian born British-Dutch
• November 30 – Yuri Chinen, Japanese singer and
actress (b. 1929)
actor
• January 21 – Charlie Gehringer, American baseball
player (b. 1903)
• January 24
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• Gustav Ernesaks, Estonian composer and a choir • February 18 – Kerry Von Erich, American
conductor (b. 1908) professional wrestler (b. 1960)
• Thurgood Marshall, American jurist, First • February 20 – Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian
African-American on the Supreme Court (b. 1908) automobile manufacturer (b. 1916)
• January 26 • February 21
• Robert Jacobsen Danish artist (b. 1912) • Inge Lehmann, Danish seismologist (b. 1888)
• Jeanne Sauvé, Canadian Governor General (b. • Dick White, British intelligence officer (b. 1906)
1922) • February 23
• January 27 – André the Giant, French professional • Phillip Terry, American actor (b. 1909)
wrestler (b. 1946) • Robert Triffin, Belgian economist (b. 1911)
• February 24 – Bobby Moore, English footballer (b.
February 1941)
• February 25 – Eddie Constantine, American-born
French singer and actor (b. 1917)
• February 26 – Beaumont Newhall, American curator
(b. 1908)
• February 27 – Lillian Gish, American actress (b. 1893)
• February 28
• Ruby Keeler, American actress (b. 1909)
• Ishirō Honda, Japanese film director (b. 1911)
March
Ferruccio Lamborghini
• February 5
• Hans Jonas, German philosopher (b. 1903)
• Tip Tipping, British actor and stuntman
(parachuting accident) (b. 1958)
• Joseph L. Mankiewicz, American screenwriter
and producer (b. 1909)
• February 6 – Arthur Ashe, American tennis player
and civil activist (b. 1943)
• February 8 – Roland Mousnier, French historian (b. Polykarp Kusch
1907)
• February 9 – Kate Wilkinson, American stage and • March 3 – Albert Sabin, American biologist,
television actress (b. 1916) developer of the oral polio vaccine (b. 1906)
• February 11 – Robert W. Holley, American • March 5 – Cyril Collard, French filmmaker (b. 1957)
biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922) • March 8 – Billy Eckstine, American musician (b. 1914)
• March 10 – Dino Bravo, Italian-Canadian pro wrestler
(b. 1949)
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• March 13 – Ann Way, English actress (b. 1915) • April 8 – Marian Anderson, American contralto (b.
• March 16 – Ralph Fults, last of America’s depression- 1897)
era outlaws. (b. 1910) • April 10 – Donald Broadbent, British psychologist (b.
• March 17 – Helen Hayes, American actress (b. 1900) 1926)
• March 20 • April 13 – Wallace Stegner, American writer (b. 1909)
• Polykarp Kusch, German-born physicist, Nobel • April 15
Prize laureate (b. 1911) • Leslie Charteris, British author (b. 1907)
• Paul László, Hungarian-born architect (b. 1900) • Robert Westall, British author (b. 1929)
• March 24 – John Hersey, American writer and • April 17 – Turgut Özal, Turkish president and prime
journalist (b. 1914) minister (b. 1927)
• March 27 – Kate Reid, Canadian actress (b. 1930) • April 20 – Cantinflas, Mexican comedian (b. 1911)
• March 30 – Richard Diebenkorn, American painter • April 23 – César Chávez, Mexican-American civil
(b. 1922) rights activist (b. 1927)
• March 31 • April 29
• Brandon Lee, American actor (b. 1965) • Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican salsa singer (b. 1946)
• Mitchell Parish, American lyricist (b. 1900) • Mick Ronson, English rock guitarist (b. 1946)
April May
• May 1 – Pierre Bérégovoy, Prime Minister of France
(b. 1925)
• May 6 – Ann Todd, English actress (b. 1909)
• May 7 – Mary Philbin, American actress (b. 1903)
• May 8
• Avram Davidson, American writer (b. 1923)
• Alwin Nikolais, American choreographer (b.
1912)
• May 14 – William Randolph Hearst, Jr., American
businessman (b. 1908)
• May 22 – Mieczysław Horszowski, Polish pianist (b.
1892)
• May 30 – Sun Ra, American jazz musician (b. 1914)
June
• June 2 – Tahar Djaout, Algerian writer (b. 1954)
• June 5 – Conway Twitty, American musician (b. 1933)
• June 6 – James Bridges, American screenwriter and
director (b. 1936)
• June 7 – Dražen Petrović, Croatian basketball Player
(b. 1964)
• June 9 – Alexis Smith, Canadian actress (b. 1921)
• June 11 – Ray Sharkey, American actor (b. 1952)
• June 13
• Deke Slayton, American astronaut (b. 1924)
• Gérard Côté, Canadian marathon runner (b. 1913)
• June 15
• John Connally, American politician (b. 1917)
• James Hunt, British race car driver (b. 1947)
Turgut Özal • June 16 – Nicanor Zabaleta, Spanish harpist (b. 1907)
• June 19
• April 1 – Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona (b. 1913) • William Golding, English writer, Nobel Prize
• April 2 – Eugenie Leontovich, Russian-born actress laureate (b. 1911)
(b. 1900) • Szymon Goldberg, Polish-born violinist (b. 1909)
• April 3 – Pinky Lee, American comedian (b. 1907) • June 22 – Pat Nixon, First Lady of the United States
• April 5 – Divya Bharti, Indian actress (b. 1974) (b. 1912)
• June 24 – Archie Williams, American athlete (b. 1915)
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Baudouin of Belgium
Pat Nixon
• Nan Grey, American actress (b. 1918)
• June 26 – Roy Campanella, American baseball player
• Cecilia Parker, American actress (b. 1914)
(b. 1921)
• July 26 – Matthew Ridgway, United States Army
• June 28 – GG Allin, American punk singer (b. 1956)
General (b. 1895)
• June 30 – George McFarland, American actor (b.
• July 31 – Baudouin of Belgium, reigning King of
1928)
Belgium (b. 1930)
July
August
• July 2
• Fred Gwynne, American actor and comedian (b.
1926)
• Masuji Ibuse, Japanese writer (b. 1898)
• July 3
• Don Drysdale, American baseball player (b. 1936)
• Curly Joe DeRita, American comedian (b. 1909)
• July 4 – Anne Shirley, American actress (b. 1918)
• July 7 – Mia Zapata, American punk musician (b.
1965)
• July 13 – Davey Allison, American stock car driver (b.
1961)
• July 14 – Léo Ferré, French poet and singer-
songwriter (b. 1916)
• July 15 – David Brian, American actor (b. 1914) Stewart Granger
• July 18 – Jean Negulesco, Romanian-born film
director (b. 1900) • August 3
• July 23 – James Jordan, father of basketball superstar, • James Donald, Scottish actor (b. 1917)
Michael Jordan (b. 1936) • Theodore A. Parker III, American ornithologist
• July 24 – Rene Requiestas, Filipino comedian (b. 1957) (b. 1953)
• July 25
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• August 5 – Eugen Suchoň, Slovak composer (b. 1908) • Raymond Burr, Canadian actor (b. 1917)
• August 7 – Christopher Gillis, American dancer and • Charles Lamont, Russian-born film director (b.
choreographer (b. 1951) 1895)
• August 10 • September 20 – Erich Hartmann, world’s highest-
• Øystein Aarseth, Norwegian black metal musician scoring Fighter Ace (b. 1922)
(b. 1968) • September 22
• Irene Sharaff, American costume designer (b. • Maurice Abravanel, Greek-born conductor (b.
1910) 1903)
• August 16 • Nina Berberova, Russian writer (b. 1901)
• René Dreyfus French Grand Prix racing driver (b. • September 24 – Ian Stuart, singer for white power
1905) skinhead band Skrewdriver (b.1957)
• Stewart Granger, Anglo-American actor (b. 1913) • September 27 – Jimmy Doolittle, American general
• August 20 – Bernard Delfgaauw, Dutch philosopher (b. 1896)
(b. 1912) • September 28 – Alexander A. Drabik, American
• August 21 – Ichiro Fujiyama, Japanese composer and soldier (b. 1910)
singer (b. 1911)
• August 28 – E. P. Thompson, English historian and October
activist (b. 1924)
• August 30 – Richard Jordan, American actor (b. 1937)
September
Vincent Price
• October 5 – Agnes de Mille, American dancer and
choreographer (b. 1905)
Jimmy Doolittle • October 7 – Cyril Cusack, Irish actor (b. 1910)
• October 12
• September 4 – Hervé Villechaize, French-born actor • Leon Ames, American actor (b. 1903)
(b. 1943) • Patrick Holt, English actor (b. 1912)
• September 7 – Christian Metz, French film theorist • October 17 – Criss Oliva, American Musician (b. 1963)
(b. 1931) • October 21
• September 9 – Helen O’Connell, American singer (b. • James Leo Herlihy, American novelist and
1920) playwright (b. 1927)
• September 11 – Erich Leinsdorf, Austrian conductor • Melchior Ndadaye, President of Burundi (b. 1953)
(b. 1912) • October 25
• September 12 • Vincent Price, American actor (b. 1911)
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• November 16 – Achille Zavatta, French circus artist
(b. 1915)
• November 18 – Fritz Feld, German actor (b. 1900)
• November 19 – Leonid Gaidai, Soviet comedy
director (b. 1923)
• November 20 – Emile Ardolino, American film
director (b. 1943)
• November 21 – Bill Bixby, American actor (b. 1934)
• November 22 – Anthony Burgess, English author (b.
1917)
• November 28
• Kenneth Connor English comedian (b. 1916)
• Garry Moore, American television host and
comedian (b. 1915)
• November 29 – J. R. D. Tata, Indian aviator and
businessman (b. 1904)
December
River Phoenix
• Danny Chan, Hong Konger singer (b. 1958)
• October 26 – Harold Rome, American composer (b.
1908)
• October 28 – Yuri Lotman, Russian formalist critic,
semiotician, and culturologist (b. 1922)
• October 31
• Federico Fellini, Italian film director (b. 1920)
• Paul Grégoire, archbishop of Montreal (b. 1911)
• River Phoenix, American actor (b. 1970)
November
• November 1
• Severo Ochoa, Spanish-born biochemist,
recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or
Medicine (b. 1905)
• A. N. Sherwin-White, English historian of Ancient
Frank Zappa
Rome (b. 1911)
• November 3 – Léon Theremin, inventor of the
• December 2 – Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord (b.
theremin (b. 1896)
1949)
• November 6 – Torsten Fenslau, German DJ and
• December 3 – Lewis Thomas, American physician and
record producer (b. 1964)
essayist (b. 1913)
• November 10 – Wensley Pithey, South African actor
• December 4 – Frank Zappa, American guitarist and
(b. 1914)
composer (b. 1940)
• November 12
• December 5
• H. R. Haldeman, American political aide and
• Doug Hopkins, American musician (b. 1961)
businessman (b. 1926)
• Alexandre Trauner, Hungarian set designer (b.
• Anna Sten, Ukrainian-born actress (b. 1908)
1906)
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• Sam Wanamaker, American film director and
actor (b. 1919)
• December 22
• Don DeFore, American actor (b. 1917)
• Alexander Mackendrick, British-American film
director (b. 1912)
• December 24 – Norman Vincent Peale, American
preacher and writer (b. 1898)
• December 25 – Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist
(b. 1899)
• December 28 – William L. Shirer, American journalist
and historian (b. 1904)
• December 31
• Zviad Gamsakhurdia, President of Georgia (b.
1939)
• Brandon Teena, American transman (b. 1972)
Nobel Prizes
• Chemistry – Kary Mullis, Michael Smith
• Economics – Robert W. Fogel, Douglass C. North
• Literature – Toni Morrison
Félix Houphouët-Boigny • Peace – Nelson Mandela and Frederik Willem de
Klerk
• December 6 – Don Ameche, American actor (b. 1908) • Physics – Russell Alan Hulse, Joseph Hooton Taylor
• December 7 Jr.
• Wolfgang Paul, German physicist, Nobel Prize • Physiology or Medicine – Richard J. Roberts, Philip
laureate (b. 1913) Allen Sharp
• Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Ivoirian president (b.
1905) Templeton Prize
• December 13 – József Antall, Hungarian Prime
Minister (b. 1932) • Charles Colson
• December 14 – Myrna Loy, American actress (b. 1905)
• December 15 – Evelyn Venable, American actress (b. References
1913)
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• December 16
• Trumbull, Charles P. (ed.) (1994). 1994 Book of the year.
• Charles Willard Moore, American architect (b.
Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica.
1926)
ISBN 0-85229-600-2.
• Kakuei Tanaka, Japanese Prime Minister (b. 1918)
• (French) Berani, Jacques (ed.) (1994). Univeralia 1994.
• December 17
Paris: Encyclopædia Universalis. ISBN 2-85229-321-8.
• Moses Gunn, American actor (b. 1929)
• (French) Harnois, Christiane (dir.) (1994). Le Livre de
• Janet Margolin, American actress (b. 1943)
l’Année 1994. Montreal: Grolier. ISBN 0-7172-3019-8.
• December 18
• Charizma, American hip hop artist (b. 1973)
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