1993

	1993 حسب الموضوع:
	الموضوع
	علم الآثار; العمارة; الفن; الطيران; جوائز; القصص المصورة; السينما; الڤيديو المنزلي; الأدب (الشعر); الأرصاد الجوية; الموسيقى (الكنتري، موسيقى الميتال); النقل بالسكك الحديدية; الراديو; العلوم; ; ; الرياضة; التلفزيون; Video gaming;
	حسب البلد
	مصر; سوريا; العراق; فلسطين; السعودية; اليمن; الجزائر; المغرب; تونس; تركيا; إيران; إثيوپيا; أستراليا; كندا; ; الصين الشعبية; الإكوادور; فرنسا; ألمانيا; اليونان; الهند; أيرلندا; إسرائيل; إيطاليا; اليابان; لوكسمبورگ; ; ماليزيا; المكسيك; نيوزيلندا; النرويج; ; پاكستان; ; ; الفلپين; روسيا; سنغافورة; جنوب أفريقيا; ; المملكة المتحدة; الولايات المتحدة; زيمبابوي;
	القادة
	الدول السيادية; قادة الدول; قادة دينيون; القانون;
	تصنيفات المواليد والوفيات
	مواليد; وفيات;
	تصنيفات تأسيسات وانحلالات
	تأسيسات; انحلالات;
	تصنيفات أعمال وأطروحات
	أعمال; أطروحات;
	v; t; e;

ألفية:	الألفية 2
قرون:	القرن 19 – القرن 20 – القرن 21
عقود:	عقد 1960 عقد 1970 عقد 1980 – عقد 1990 – عقد 2000 عقد 2010 عقد 2020
سنين:	1990 1991 1992 – 1993 – 1994 1995 1996

القرون:	قرن 19 · قرن 20 · قرن 21st
العقود:	ع1960 ع1970 ع1980 ع1990 ع2000 ع2010 ع2020
السنوات:	1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996

1993 في التقاويم الأخرى
التقويم الگريگوري	1993 MCMXCIII
آب أوربه كونديتا	2746
التقويم الأرمني	1442 ԹՎ ՌՆԽԲ
التقويم الآشوري	6743
التقويم البهائي	149–150
التقويم البنغالي	1400
التقويم الأمازيغي	2943
سنة العهد البريطاني	41 إليز. 2 – 42 إليز. 2
التقويم البوذي	2537
التقويم البورمي	1355
التقويم البيزنطي	7501–7502
التقويم الصيني	壬申年 (الماء القرد) 4689 أو 4629 — إلى — 癸酉年 (الماء الديك) 4690 أو 4630
التقويم القبطي	1709–1710
التقويم الديسكوردي	3159
التقويم الإثيوپي	1985–1986
التقويم العبري	5753–5754
التقاويم الهندوسية
- ڤيكرام سامڤات	2049–2050
- شاكا سامڤات	1915–1916
- كالي يوگا	5094–5095
تقويم الهولوسين	11993
تقويم الإگبو	993–994
التقويم الإيراني	1371–1372
التقويم الهجري	1413–1414
التقويم الياباني	Heisei 5 (平成５年)
تقويم جوچى	82
التقويم اليوليوسي	الگريگوري ناقص 13 يوم
التقويم الكوري	4326
تقويم مينگوو	جمهورية الصين 82 民國82年
التقويم الشمسي التايلندي	2536
توقيت يونيكس	725846400–757382399
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سنة 1993 (MCMXCIII) كانت سنة بسيطة تبدأ يوم الجمعة (الرابط يعرض التقويم كاملاً) التقويم الگريگوري، السنة 1993rd بعد الميلاد (م)، السنة 993rd في الألفية 2، السنة 93rd في القرن 20، والسنة 4 في عقد 1990.

أحداث

يناير

1 يناير
- Czechoslovakia ceases to exist as the Czech Republic and Slovakia separate in the so-called Velvet Divorce.
- The European Economic Community eliminates trade barriers and creates a European single market.
- British ITV companies GMTV, Carlton Television, Meridian Broadcasting and Westcountry Television start broadcasting, replacing TV-am, Thames Television, TVS and TSW respectively.
- Euronews, a multilingual television news channels in Europe, officially launched.^{[citation needed]}
2 يناير – Sri Lankan Civil War: The Sri Lanka Navy kills 35-100 civilians on the Jaffna Lagoon.
January 3
- In Moscow, Presidents George H. W. Bush (United States) and Boris Yeltsin (Russia) sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.
- The third Star Trek TV series Deep Space Nine premieres in syndication.
January 5
- The state of Washington executes Westley Allan Dodd by hanging (the first judicial hanging in America since 1965).
- US$7.4 million is stolen from the Brink's 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.
- MV Braer, a Liberian-registered oil tanker, runs aground off the Scottish island of Mainland, Shetland, causing a massive oil spill.
January 6 – Douglas Hurd is the first high-ranking British official to visit Argentina since the Falklands War.
January 6–20 – The Bombay Riots take place in Mumbai.
January 7 – The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated, with Jerry Rawlings as president.
January 8–17 – The Braer Storm of January 1993, the most intense extratropical cyclone on record for the northern Atlantic Ocean, occurs.
January 11 – Monday Night Raw, the longest running weekly episodic show of the World Wrestling Entertainment/Federation (WWE/F), debuts on television in the United States.
January 14 – The Polish ferry إم‌إس Jan Heweliusz sinks off the coast of Rügen in the Baltic Sea, killing 54 people.
January 15 – Salvatore Riina, the Sicilian Mafia boss known as 'The Beast', is arrested in Palermo, Sicily, after 23 years as a fugitive.
January 19
- The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) is 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 is sworn in as the 42nd President of the United States.
January 24 – In تركيا, thousands protest the murder of journalist Uğur Mumcu.
January 25
- Mir Aimal Kasi fires a rifle and kills two employees outside Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
- Social Democrat Poul Nyrup Rasmussen succeeds Conservative Poul Schlüter as Prime Minister of Denmark.
- The Russian space station Mir boasts the first art exhibition in outer space.^[1]
26 يناير – Václav Havel is elected President of the Czech Republic.

February

February 4 – Members of the right-wing Austrian Freedom Party of Austria 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 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 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 two 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 from New Strand Shopping Centre by two ten-year-old boys, who later torture and murder him.
February 14
- Glafcos Clerides defeats incumbent George Vasiliou in the Cypriot presidential election.
- Albert Zafy defeats Didier Ratsiraka in the Madagascar presidential election.
February 17 – A ferry sinks in Haiti, killing approximately 1,215 out of 1,500 passengers.
February 21 – Star Fox (series) is released, marking the first 3D Polygonal Star Fox title for the Super Famicom/Super Nintendo Entertainment System smash hit game developed by Nintendo with programming assistance by Argonaut Software (currently Argonaut Games).
February 22 – UN Security Council Resolution 808 is voted on, deciding that "an international tribunal shall be established" to prosecute violations of international law in Yugoslavia. The tribunal is established on May 25 by Resolution 827.
February 24 – Prime Minister of Canada Brian Mulroney resigns amidst political and economic turmoil. Kim Campbell, his successor, becomes Canada's first female Prime Minister.
February 26 – World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a van bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, killing 6 and injuring over 1,000.
February 28 – Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives 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 5 – Macedonian Palair Flight 305, an F-100 on a flight to Zürich, crashes shortly after take-off from Skopje, killing 83 of the 97 on board.
March 8 – The Moon moves into its nearest point to Earth, called perigee, at the same time as its fullest phase of the Lunar Cycle. The Moon appears to be 14% bigger and 30% brighter than the year's other full moons. The next time these two events coincided was in 2008.^[2]
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 12
- 1993 Bombay bombings: Several bombs explode in Bombay, India, killing 257 and injuring hundreds more.
- North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea announces that it plans to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and refuses to allow inspectors access to nuclear sites.
March 13–March 15 – The Great Blizzard of 1993 strikes the eastern U.S., bringing record snowfall and other severe weather all the way from Cuba to Quebec; it reportedly kills 184.
March 13 – Australian federal election, 1993: The Australian Labor Party stays in power despite poor economic results.
March 17 – The Kurdistan Workers' Party announces a unilateral ceasefire in Iraq.
March 20 – Warrington bomb attacks: A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb explodes in Warrington Town Centre and kills two children, Jonathan Ball and Tim Parry.
March 22 – The Intel Corporation ships the first P5 Pentium chips.
March 24
- The Israeli Knesset elects Ezer Weizman as President of Israel.
- South Africa officially abandons its nuclear weapons programme. President de Klerk announces that the country's six warheads had already been dismantled in 1989.
March 27
- Jiang Zemin becomes President of the People's Republic of China.
- Following a rash of integrist murders, Algeria breaks diplomatic relations with Iran, accusing the country of interfering in its interior affairs.
- Mahamane Ousmane is elected president of Niger.
March 28 – French legislative election, 1993: Rally for the Republic (Gaullist party) wins a majority and Édouard Balladur becomes Prime Minister.
March 29 – The 65th Academy Awards, hosted by Billy Crystal, are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, with Unforgiven winning Best Picture.

April

April – The Kuwaiti government claims to uncover an Iraqi assassination plot against former U.S. President George 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.^[3]
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.^[4]
April 16 – Bosnian War: the enclave of Srebrenica is declared a UN-protected "safe area".
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 21 – The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis Garcia Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.
April 22 – In Washington, D.C., the Holocaust Memorial Museum is dedicated.
April 23
- The World Health Organization declares tuberculosis a global emergency.
- Eritreans vote overwhelmingly for independence from Ethiopia in a United Nations-monitored referendum, the Eritrean independence referendum.
April 24 – A huge IRA truck bomb explodes at Bishopsgate in the centre of London's financial district, killing one person and causing extensive damage to the area.
April 26 – Oscar Luigi Scalfaro appoints Carlo Azeglio Ciampi as Prime Minister of Italy.
April 27
- Eritrea: Eritrean independence is declared as a result of a referendum held with United Nations verification.
- 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 en 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.

May

May 1
- Pierre Bérégovoy, former Prime Minister of France, commits suicide.
- A Tamil Tigers suicide bomber assassinates President Ranasinghe Premadasa of Sri Lanka.
- Dingiri Banda Wijetunga became the third executive president of Sri Lanka.
May 4 – UNOSOM II assumes the Somalian duties of the dissolved UNITAF.
May 9 – Juan Carlos Wasmosy becomes the first democratically elected President of Paraguay in nearly 40 years.
May 15 – Niamh Kavanagh wins the Eurovision Song Contest for Ireland with "In Your Eyes".
May 16 – The Grand National Assembly of Turkey elects Prime Minister Süleyman Demirel as President of Turkey. After Demirel becomes president, the acting Prime Minister of Turkey is Erdal İnönü of Social Democratic Populist Party for 40 days.
May 24 – Eritrea gains independence from Ethiopia.
May 25 – The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia is created in The Hague.
May 27
- Massacre of Via dei Georgofili: A car bomb planted outside the Uffizi Gallery in Florence by the Mafia kills five and irretrievably destroys three paintings.^[5]^[6]
- Kenneth Clarke is appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer in John Major's parliament, after Major sacked Norman Lamont following Black Wednesday.
May 28
- Eritrea and Monaco gain entry to the United Nations.
- Super Mario Bros., the first major American movie based on a video game, is released in theaters.
May 29 – The first Life Ball takes place in Vienna, Austria. In 2011, the event is named the largest public charity on HIV and AIDS in Europe.

June

June 1
- Large protests erupt against Slobodan Milošević's regime in Belgrade; opposition leader Vuk Drašković and his wife Danica are arrested.
- President of Guatemala Jorge Serrano Elías is forced to flee the country after an attempted self-coup.
- Burundian presidential election, 1993: The first multiparty elections in Burundi since the country's independence lead to the election of Melchior Ndadaye, leader of the Front for Democracy in Burundi. The next day's legislative election sees his party win with an overwhelming majority.
June 5
- The National Assembly of Venezuela designates Ramón José Velásquez as successor of suspended President Carlos Andrés Pérez.
- Twenty-four Pakistani troops in the United Nations forces are killed in Mogadishu, Somalia.
June 6
- Following the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement's victory, Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada becomes president of Bolivia.
- Mongolia holds its first direct presidential elections.
June 8 – The PKK-declared ceasefire ends in Iraq.
June 14 – Multipartyists win a referendum on the future of the one-party system in Malawi.
June 18 – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq refuses to allow UNSCOM weapons inspectors to install remote-controlled monitoring cameras at two missile engine test stands.
June 20 – John Paxson's 3-point shot in game six of the NBA Finals helps the Chicago Bulls secure a 99–98 win over the Phoenix Suns, and their third consecutive championship.
June 22 – Japan's New Party Sakigake breaks away from the Liberal Democratic Party.
June 23 – In Manassas, Virginia, Lorena Bobbitt cuts off the penis of her husband John Wayne Bobbitt.
June 24
- A Unabomber bomb injures computer scientist David Gelernter at Yale University.
- Andrew Wiles wins worldwide fame after presenting his proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, a problem that had been unsolved for more than three centuries.
June 25
- Kim Campbell becomes the 19th, and first female, Prime Minister of Canada.
- Tansu Çiller of True Path Party forms the new government of تركيا.
- Zoran Lilić succeeds Dobrica Ćosić as President of Yugoslavia.
- The litas is introduced in Lithuania.
- Jacques Attali resigns as President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
June 26–June 28 – Typhoon Koryn causes massive damage to the Philippines, China and Macau.
June 27
- U.S. President Bill Clinton orders a cruise missile attack on Iraqi intelligence headquarters in the Al-Mansur District of Baghdad, in response to an Iraqi plot to assassinate former U.S. President George H. W. Bush during his visit to Kuwait in mid-April.
- In Bad Kleinen, Germany, GSG 9 troopers arrest Birgit Hogefeld and kill Wolfgang Grams, two Red Army Faction terrorists.

July

July 2
- An integrist mob sets fire to the hotel where The Satanic Verses translator Aziz Nesin resides in Sivas, تركيا, killing 37.
- A floating chapel sank in Bocaue, Bulacan, killing 266 people.
July 5
- Iraq disarmament crisis: UN inspection teams leave Iraq. Iraq then agrees to UNSCOM demands and the inspection teams return.
- Electrochemist Faiza Al-Kharafi is appointed rector (president) of Kuwait University, the first woman to head a major university in the Middle East.
July 7–July 9 – The 19th G7 summit is held in Tokyo, Japan.
July 7 – Hurricane Calvin lands in Mexico. It is the second Pacific hurricane on record to land in Mexico in July, and kills 34.
July 12 – The 7.7 M_w  Hokkaidō earthquake affected northern Japan with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe) and triggers a devastating tsunami that kills 230 on the small island of Okushiri, Hokkaido.
July 16–17 – In Estonia, the majority Russian cities of Narva and Sillamäe organize referendums on "territorial autonomy" to protest new citizenship laws. The referendums are later declared null and void by the Supreme Court.
July 19
- Japanese general election, 1993: The loss of majority of the Liberal Democratic Party results in a coalition taking power.
- U.S. President Bill Clinton announces his 'Don't ask, don't tell' policy regarding gays in the American military.
July 20 – White House deputy counsel Vince Foster commits suicide in Virginia.
July 23 – Candelária massacre: Brazilian police officers kill eight street kids in Rio de Janeiro.
July 25 – In a terrorist attack members of the Azanian People's Liberation Army open fire on a congregation inside St James Church in Kenilworth, Cape Town, killing eleven and injuring fifty.^[4]^[7]
July 26
- Miguel Indurain wins the 1993 Tour de France.
- Asiana Airlines Flight 733 crashes into Mt. Ungeo in Haenam, South Korea; 68 die.
July 27 – Windows NT 3.1, the first version of Microsoft's line of Windows NT operating systems, is released to manufacturing.
July 29 – The Israeli Supreme Court acquits accused Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk of all charges and he is set free.

August

August 4
- A federal judge sentences Los Angeles Police Department officers Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell to 30 months in prison for violating motorist Rodney King's civil rights.
- The Japanese government issues the Kono Statement, acknowledging the comfort women's (sex slaves) deportation.
August 5
- The discovery of the Tel Dan Stele, the first archaeological confirmation of the existence of the Davidic line, is announced.
- Magic: The Gathering undergoes its first general release.
August 6 – According to Japanese government and TBS networks reports, torrential rain and mudslides kill 72 in Kagoshima, Japan.
August 9 – King Albert II of Belgium is sworn into office nine days after the death of his brother, King Baudouin I.
August 13 – Over 130 die in the collapse of Royal Plaza Hotel at Nakhon Ratchasima in تايلند's worst hotel disaster.
August 16 – Debian announced, initially called "the Debian Linux Release".
August 17 – For the first time, the public is allowed inside Buckingham Palace in London.
August 18 – The 14th century Kapellbrücke covered wooden truss bridge in Lucerne (Switzerland) is largely destroyed by fire.
August 21 – NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Observer orbiter 3 days before the spacecraft is scheduled to enter orbit around Mars.
August 28 – Ong Teng Cheong becomes the first President of Singapore elected by the population.
August 28 – Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, one of the longest running and most popular science fiction franchises, debuts on Fox Kids with the episode Day of the Dumpster.
August 31 – Russia completes removing its troops from Lithuania.

September

13 سبتمبر - توقيع اتفاقية اوسلو بين اسرائيل ومنظمة التحرير الفلسطينية.
September 15 – Giuseppe 'Pino' Puglisi, an Italian priest in the Palermo neighborhood of Brancaccio, is assassinated in front of his church on his 56th birthday in retaliation for his anti-Mafia activism. One of the hitmen later confessed that Fr. Puglisi's last words as his killers approached were: "I've been expecting you."
September 15 – September 21 – Hurricane Gert crosses from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean through Central America and Mexico.
September 17 – Russian troops withdraw from Poland.
September 19 – Polish parliamentary election, 1993: A coalition of the Democratic Left Alliance and the Polish People's Party led by Waldemar Pawlak comes into power.
September 22 – Big Bayou Canot train disaster: A bridge collapses as the Sunset Limited crosses it, killing 47.
September 23 – The International Olympic Committee selects Sydney, Australia to host the 2000 Summer Olympics.
September 24 – The Cambodian monarchy is restored, with Norodom Sihanouk as king.
September 26
- The first mission in Biosphere 2 ends after two years.
- PoSAT-1 (the first Portuguese satellite) is launched on board French rocket Ariane 4.
September 27 – War in Abkhazia – Fall of Sukhumi: Eduard Shevardnadze accuses Russia of passive complicity.
September 30 – The 6.2 M_w  Latur earthquake shakes Maharashtra, India with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe) killing 9,748 and injuring 30,000.

October

October 3 – Battle of Mogadishu: The U.S. Army conducts Operation Gothic Serpent in the city of Mogadishu, Somalia, using Task Force Ranger. Two U.S. Army UH-60 Blackhawks are shot down and the operation leaves over 1,000 Somalians dead and over 73 Americans WIA, 18 KIA, and 1 captured.
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.
- The papal encyclical Veritatis Splendor is promulgated.
October 10 – The South Korean ferry Seohae capsizes off Pusan, South Korea; 292 are killed.
October 11–October 28 – The UNMIH is prevented from entering Haiti. On October 18, economic sanctions (abolished in August) are reinstated.
October 13
- Greek legislative election, 1993: Andreas Papandreou begins his second term as Prime Minister of Greece.
- The fifth summit of the Francophonie opens in Mauritius.
October 19 – Benazir Bhutto becomes the Prime Minister of Pakistan for the second time.
October 21 – A coup in Burundi results in the death of president Melchior Ndadaye and sparks the Burundi Civil War.
October 25 – Canadian federal election, 1993: Jean Chrétien and his Liberal Party defeat the governing Progressive Conservative Party, which falls to a historic low of 2 seats.
October 30 – Greysteel massacre: Three members of the Ulster Defence Association, a loyalist paramilitary group, attack a crowded bar in Greysteel, Northern Ireland, with firearms, killing 8 civilians and wounding 13. The bar was targeted because it is in an Irish nationalist and Catholic area.

November

November 1 – The Maastricht Treaty takes effect, formally establishing the European Union.
November 5 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Railways Act 1993, setting out the procedures for privatisation of British Rail.
November 9 – Bosnian Croat forces destroy the Stari Most, or Old Bridge of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, by tank fire.
November 11
- Microsoft releases Windows for Workgroups 3.11 to manufacturing.
- Sri Lankan Civil War – Battle of Pooneryn: Over 400 Sri Lankan military are killed.
November 12 – London Convention: Marine dumping of radioactive waste is outlawed.
November 17–November 22 – The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) passes the legislative houses in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
November 18
- In a status referendum, Puerto Rico residents vote with a slim margin to maintain Commonwealth status.
- In South Africa, 21 political parties approve a new constitution.
- The first meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit opens in Seattle.
November 20
- Savings and loan crisis: The United States Senate Ethics Committee issues a stern censure of California senator Alan Cranston for his dealings with savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating.
- An Avioimpex Yakovlev Yak-42D crashes into Mount Trojani near Ohrid, Macedonia. The aircraft was on a flight from Geneva, Switzerland to Skopje, but had been diverted to Ohrid due to poor weather conditions at the Skopje airport. All 8 crew members and 115 of the 116 passengers are killed.
November 28 – The Observer reveals that a channel of communications has existed between the Provisional Irish Republican Army and the British government, despite the government's persistent denials.
November 30
- An agreement establishing the Permanent Commission for East African Co-operation is signed.
- U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act.

December

December 1 – A train crash at Tattenham Corner railway station leads to the introduction of the current drugs and alcohol policy for railways in the UK.
December 2
- STS-61: NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair an optical flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope.
- The September 6 merger between Renault and Volvo fails; Volvo CEO Pehr G. Gyllenhammar resigns.
- Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is gunned down by police
December 5 – Rafael Caldera Rodríguez is elected President of Venezuela for the second time, succeeding interim president Ramón José Velásquez.
December 7
- Colin Ferguson opens fire with his Ruger 9 mm pistol on a Long Island Rail Road train, killing six and injuring 19.
- The 32-member Transitional Executive Committee holds its first meeting in Cape Town, marking the first meeting of an official government body in South Africa with Black members.
- President of Ivory Coast Félix Houphouët-Boigny dies at 88, the oldest African head of state. He is succeeded three days later by Henri Konan Bédié.
December 8 – U.S. President Bill Clinton signs into law the North American Free Trade Agreement.
December 10 – id Software releases Doom, a seminal first-person shooter that uses advanced 3D graphics for computer games.
December 11
- Chilean presidential election, 1993: Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle is elected with 58% of the vote.
- A variety of Soviet space program paraphernalia are put to auction in Sotheby's New York, and sell for a total of US$6.8M. One of the items is Lunokhod 1 and its spacecraft Luna 17; they sell for $68,500.
- One of the three blocks of the Highland Towers near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia comes down, killing 48.
December 12 – Péter Boross becomes Prime Minister of Hungary following the death of József Antall.
December 13
- Prime Minister of Canada Kim Campbell resigns as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party, and is succeeded as leader by Jean Charest.
- The Majilis of Kazakhstan approves the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and agrees to dismantle the more than 100 missiles left on its territory by the fall of the USSR.
December 15
- Downing Street Declaration: The United Kingdom commits itself to the search for an answer to the problems of Northern Ireland.
- The Uruguay Round of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) talks reach a successful conclusion after seven years.
- Schindler's List, directed by Steven Spielberg is released in theatres.
December 16 – Brazil's Supreme Court rules that former President Fernando Collor de Mello may not hold elected office again until 2000 due to political corruption.
December 18 – Omar Bongo is re-elected as President of Gabon in the country's first multiparty elections.
20 ديسمبر
- The United Nations General Assembly votes unanimously to appoint a U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights.
- The first corrected images from the Hubble Telescope are taken.
December 22 – The interim South African constitution is approved by Parliament 237–45.
December 29 – Argentina passes a measure allowing President Carlos Menem and all future presidents to run for a second term. It also shortens presidential terms to 4 years and removes the requirement for the president to be Roman Catholic.
December 30
- Israel and the Vatican establish diplomatic relations.
- The Congress Party gains a parliamentary majority in India after the defection of 10 Janata Dal party lawmakers.
- Six members of the Azanian People's Liberation Army open fire on patrons of the Heidelberg Tavern in Observatory, Cape Town, killing four and injuring several others.^[4]

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The second World Parliament of Religions is held in Chicago.
Michael Jackson is accused by Evan Chandler of sexually molesting Jordan Chandler, Evan's 13-year-old son.
U.S. President Bill Clinton sends 6 American warships to Haiti, to enforce United Nations trade sanctions against the military-led regime in that country.
The Mississippi and Missouri Rivers flood large portions of the American Midwest.
Severe floods hit South Asia, killing over 4,000 people in Bangladesh, India and Nepal.
The European Exchange Rate Mechanism is put in crisis, mainly from speculation against the French franc.
Over a dozen people are killed by the new Hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome, mainly in the Southwestern United States.
Wildfires in California destroy over 16،000 acre (65 km²) and 700 homes.
Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time becomes the longest-running book on the bestseller list of The Sunday Times ever.
The Oslo Accords negotiations begin.
Many foreigners are murdered by rebel groups in Algeria.
The Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform succeeds in having the Irish sodomy law reformed.
The Jack in the Box E.coli Incident occurred in 1993 when 732 people were infected with the Escherichia coli O157:H7 bacterium originating from undercooked beef patties in hamburgers.
The genus Prosansanosmilus was discovered and classified with its type species, Prosansanosmilus peregrinus.
The DFA-2 gene was discovered.

Births

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