1993 in the United States

1993
in
the United States

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Events from the year 1993 in the United States.

Incumbents

Federal government

Events

January

January 20: Bill Clinton becomes President

February

February 26: World Trade Center bombing
  • February 6 – Former tennis player Arthur Ashe, 49, dies of the AIDS virus in New York. Ashe was believed to have contracted the virus from a blood transfusion during a heart surgery ten years earlier.[1]
  • February 8 – General Motors Corporation sues NBC, after Dateline NBC allegedly rigged two crashes showing that some GM pickups can easily catch fire if hit in certain places. NBC settles the lawsuit the following day.
  • February 11 – Janet Reno is selected by President Clinton as Attorney General of the United States.
  • February 26 – 1993 World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a van bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, killing six and injuring over 1,000.
  • February 28 – Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents raid the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, with a warrant to arrest leader David Koresh on federal firearms violations. Four agents and five Davidians die in the raid and a 51-day standoff begins.

March

  • March 4 – Authorities announce the capture of suspected World Trade Center bombing conspirator Mohammad Salameh.
  • March 9 – Rodney King testifies at the federal trial of four Los Angeles, California police officers accused of violating his civil rights when they beat him during an arrest.
  • March 11 – Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn in the next day, becoming the first female Attorney General of the United States.
  • March 13–14 – The Great Blizzard of 1993 strikes the eastern United States, bringing record snowfall and other severe weather all the way from Cuba to Quebec; it reportedly kills 184.
  • March 22 – The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips.
  • March 29 – The 65th Academy Awards, hosted by Billy Crystal, are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California, with Unforgiven winning Best Picture.

April

April 19: The Waco Siege ends with a deadly fire
April – October: The Great Flood of 1993

May

  • May 1 – An outbreak of a respiratory illness later identified as hantavirus pulmonary syndrome begins in the southwestern United States; 32 patients die by the end of the year.[3][4]
  • May 5 – The West Memphis Three are three men who – while teenagers – were tried and convicted, in 1994, of the May 5, 1993 murders of three boys in West Memphis, Arkansas. Damien Echols was sentenced to death, Jessie Misskelley, Jr. was sentenced to life imprisonment plus two 20-year sentences, and Jason Baldwin was sentenced to life imprisonment. During the trial, the prosecution asserted that the children were killed as part of a Satanic ritual.

June

July

  • July 1 – Gian Ferri kills eight and injures six before committing suicide at a law firm in San Francisco, sparking new legislative actions for gun control.
  • July 19 – U.S. President Bill Clinton announces his 'Don't ask, don't tell' policy regarding homosexuals serving in the American military.
  • July 20 – White House deputy counsel Vince Foster commits suicide in Virginia.
  • July 27 – Windows NT 3.1, the first version of Microsoft's line of Windows NT operating systems, is released to manufacturing.

August

September

  • September 4 – The second World Parliament of Religions is held in Chicago.
  • September 6 – Canadian software specialist Peter de Jager publishes in an article titled "Doomsday 2000" in the U.S. weekly magazine Computerworld, which is the first known reference to Y2K – the Year 2000 problem.
  • September 13 – PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin shake hands in Washington D.C., after signing a peace accord.

October

  • October 3 – A large scale battle erupts between U.S. forces and local militia in Mogadishu, Somalia; eighteen Americans and over 1,000 Somalis are killed.
  • October 8 – David Miscavige announces the IRS has granted full tax exemption to the Church of Scientology International and affiliated churches and organizations, ending the Church's 40-year battle with the IRS and resulting in religious recognition in the United States.
  • October 16 – U.S. President Bill Clinton sends six American warships to Haiti to enforce United Nations trade sanctions against their military-led regime.[5]
  • October 25 – Actor Vincent Price dies of lung cancer.
  • October 27 – Wildfires begin in California which eventually destroy over 16,000 acres (65 km2) and 700 homes.[6]
  • October 31 – Actor River Phoenix dies of drug-induced heart failure on the sidewalk outside the West Hollywood nightclub The Viper Room.

November

December

Ongoing

Sport

Colorado rockies becomes a baseball team

Births

Deaths

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

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See also

References

  1. "Tributes to Arthur Ashe". The Independent. 8 February 1993.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2002-10-14. Retrieved 2016-02-07.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
  3. Altman, Lawrence. Virus that caused deaths among Navajos is isolated, New York Times, November 21, 1993.
  4. Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome – United States, 1993, Centers for Disease Control.
  5. Wire services. 6 Warships From US Go To Haiti, October 16, 1993, Milwaukee Sentinel.
  6. Reinhold, Robert.Thousands Flee As Brush Fires Rake California, October 28, 1993, New York Times.
  7. https://www.californiabirthindex.org/birth/kyle_thomas_harvey_born_1993_22201579
  8. "Caroline ZHANG - Olympic | United States of America". International Olympic Committee. 26 June 2016. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  9. "Eleanor Sanger Dies; TV Producer Was 63". New York Times. March 8, 1993. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
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