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1993 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1993rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 993rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 93rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1990s decade.
August 1 – The Great Flood of 1993 comes to a peak. August 4 – A federal judge sentences LAPD officers Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell to 30 months in prison for violating motorist Rodney King's civil rights. August 10 Ruth Bader Ginsburg is sworn in as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. World Youth Day 1993 in Denver, Colorado.
February 11 – Irina Privalova sets a new women's 60m indoors world record; August – 1993 World Championships in Athletics held in Stuttgart; September – Qu Yunxia sets a World Record of 3:50.46 in the women's 1500 m; September – Wang Junxia sets new world records of 29:31.78 in the women's 10,000 m and 8:06.11 in the women's 3000m
1993 — A truck bomb explodes in the parking garage under the World Trade Center in New York City, killing six people and injuring over a thousand. 1993 — Branch Davidians standoff and fire near Waco, Texas, resulting in the deaths of 81 people including their leader, David Koresh.
[66] [67] Although the 1993 bombing made the World Trade Center a publicly known terrorist target, [68] [69] with the possibility of another attack suspected as early as 1995 by FBI Special Agent John O'Neill, [70] [71] [72] as well as by former Senators Gary Hart and Warren Rudman of the Hart-Rudman Commission in January 2001, [73] [74] the 9/ ...
December 1993 events by country (11 C) This page was last edited on 19 September 2022, at 06:19 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
1993 events by country (12 C) 1993 crimes by country (40 C) 1993 disasters by country (29 C) 1993 in international relations (6 C, 25 P) 1993 in music by country (13 C)
The Big Buddha (photographed in June 2013). The Big Buddha, a 112-foot (34 m) tall bronze statue, was dedicated on Lantau Island in Hong Kong. At that time it was the largest outdoor bronze Buddha statue in the world. [286] 31-year-old French footballer Pierre Bianconi, a Corsican nationalist, disappeared.