Historical Events In 1993

Apr 06 Branch Navy Hospital Adak responds to crash of civilian Chinese airline providing lifesaving treatment and medical evacuation of 89 injured passengers. Only one passenger out of 265 passengers died.

Apr 05 Crowd of 73,293 watches New York Yankees beat Cleveland Indians 9-1

Apr 05 Republican Guard kills 64 in Chad

Apr 05 55th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship North Carolina beats Michigan 77-71

Apr 04 Wrestlemania IX at Caesar's Palace Las Vegas, Hulk Hogan pins Yokozuna

Apr 05 Construction begins on Cleveland's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Apr 04 Trish Johnson wins Las Vegas LPGA at Canyon Gate Golf Tournament

Apr 05 Colorado Rockies 1st game - lose to New York Mets 3-0

Apr 04 12th NCAA Women's Basketball Champion Texas Tech beats Ohio State 84-82

Nov 01 Maastricht Treaty takes effect

Nov 11 Entombment at the Australian War Memorial of the remains of an Unknown Australian Soldier from a World War One cemetery in France

Nov 30 Brady bill signed into law

Nov 17 US Congress votes for NAFTA

Nov 01 Australia grants permanent extension on visas given to Chinese present in the country at the time of the Tienanmen Square massacre in Beijing in June 1989

Dec 25 SS South of Ireland, a passenger steamer, built for the Great Western Railway, and completed in 1867, she was lost at Warbarrow near Lulworth on December 25th, inward bound to Weymouth.

Dec 12 Ultra-Nationalists make strong gains in Russian elections dec13

Dec 15 Downing Street Declaration on Northern Ireland issued

Dec 07 South African transitional executive council set up

Dec 02 Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is shot to death in Medellin.

Dec 14 Actress Myrna Loy dies at age 88.

Dec 08 The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is signed into US law. NAFTA is a trade pact between the United States, Canada, and Mexico, eliminates virtually all tariffs and trade restrictions between the three nations.

Dec 28 Timmins, Ontario country singer Shania Twain marries her producer Robert John "Mutt& Lang.

Dec 13 Hubble Space Telescope repaired

Dec 15 GATT Uruguay Round completed

May 09 Landslide in Nambija Ecuador, kills 300

May 13 Methane gas explosion in Secunda coal mine South-Africa, kills 50

May 20 10 meter meteor comes within 150,000 km of Earth (1993KA)

May 08 Lennox Lewis beats Tony Tucker in 12 for heavyweight boxing title

May 13 Arsenio Hall's 1,000th show retrospective seen in Netherlands

May 10 Paul Cézannes still life sells for $28,600,000 in NYC

May 19 Boeing 727 crashes into mountain at Medellín Colombia, kills 132

May 22 Riddick Bowe TKOs Jesse Ferguson in 2 for heavyweight boxing title

May 10 Fire in clothing factory at Bangkok, kills 145

May 15 Jane Seymour & James Kesch marry

May 12 Final episode of 6 year run of ABC's "Wonder Years" in Netherlands

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