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 the 42nd U.S. President
January 20: Al Gore becomes the 45th U.S. Vice President

February

February 26: World Trade Center bombing

March

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 25 – Greg Nicholson, his girlfriend and her two young daughters are murdered in Iowa by Dustin Honken and Angela Johnson. Nicholson was due to testify against Honken in court in relation to his drug activities.[5][6]
  • July 27 – Windows NT 3.1, the first version of Microsoft's line of Windows NT operating systems, is released to manufacturing.

August

September

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.[7]
  • 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.[8]
  • 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

Births

Deaths

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

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. Timeline of events in the Dustin Honken case, infamous Iowa killer
  6. Waiting to die: Dustin Lee Honken execution
  7. Wire services. 6 Warships From US Go To Haiti, October 16, 1993, Milwaukee Sentinel.
  8. Reinhold, Robert.Thousands Flee As Brush Fires Rake California, October 28, 1993, New York Times.
  9. https://www.californiabirthindex.org/birth/kyle_thomas_harvey_born_1993_22201579
  10. "Caroline ZHANG - Olympic | United States of America". International Olympic Committee. 26 June 2016. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  11. "Ryan McCartan on Instagram: "26 🎂"". Instagram.
  12. "Eleanor Sanger Dies; TV Producer Was 63". New York Times. March 8, 1993. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
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