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by Tobias_Marco » Tue Feb 21, 2012 12:56 pm
<In 1993
January 20 – Bill Clinton succeeds George H.W. Bush as the 42nd President of the United States.
January 20 – Legendary actress Audrey Hepburn dies at the age of 63.
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.
January 31 – Super Bowl XXVII: The Buffalo Bills become the first team to lose 3 consecutive Super Bowls as they are defeated by the Dallas Cowboys, 52–17.
[edit] February
The aftermath of the World Trade Center bombing.
February 4 – Members of the right-wing Austrian FPÖ split to form the Liberal Forum in protest against the increasing nationalistic bent of the party.
February 5 – Belgium becomes a federal monarchy rather than a unitary kingdom.
February 8 – General Motors Corporation sues NBC, after Dateline NBC allegedly rigged 2 crashes showing that some GM pickups can easily catch fire if hit in certain places. NBC settles the lawsuit the following day.
February 10
Lien Chan is named by Lee Teng-Hui to succeed Hau Pei-tsun as Premier of the Republic of China.
Mani Pulite scandal: Italian legislator Claudio Martelli resigns, followed by various politicians over the next 2 weeks.
February 11 – Janet Reno is selected by President Clinton as Attorney General of the United States.
February 12 – Two year old James Bulger is abducted, tortured and murdered by two 10 year old boys, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson. Both are later charged.
April – The Kuwaiti government claims to uncover an Iraqi assassination plot against former U.S. President George H.W. Bush shortly after his visit to Kuwait. Two Iraqi nationals confess to driving a car-bomb into Kuwait on behalf of the Iraqi Intelligence Service.[1]
April 1 – The Vatican orders the moving of the Carmelite convent at Auschwitz.
April 6 – A nuclear accident occurs at Tomsk 7 in Russia.
April 8 – The Republic of Macedonia is admitted to the United Nations.
April 10 – African National Congress activist Chris Hani is assassinated in South Africa.
April 16 – Bosnian War: the enclave of Srebrenica is declared a UN-protected "safe area".
April 17 – Laurence Powell and Stacey Koon are found guilty in the second Rodney King trial.
April 19
A 51-day stand-off at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, ends with a fire that kills 76 people, including David Koresh.
South Dakota governor George Mickelson and seven others are killed when a state-owned aircraft crashes near Dubuque, Iowa.
April 22
In Washington, DC, the Holocaust Memorial Museum is dedicated.
18-year-old student Stephen Lawrence is stabbed to death in London, England; the attack is believed to have been racially motivated.
April 23
The World Health Organization declares tuberculosis a Global Emergency.
Eritreans vote overwhelmingly for independence from Ethiopia in a United Nations-monitored referendum.
April 26 – Oscar Luigi Scalfaro appoints Carlo Azeglio Ciampi Prime Minister of Italy.
April 27
Yemeni parliamentary election, 1993: The General People's Congress wins a plurality of 121 seats.
All members of the Zambia national football team die in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon in route to Dakar, Senegal.
April 28 – An executive order requires the United States Air Force to allow women to fly war planes.
April 30 – Tennis star Monica Seles is stabbed in the back by an obsessed fan of rival Steffi Graf at a tournament in Hamburg, Germany.
...and I turn 11 years of age.>
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