Historical Events In 1993

Jan 24 US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Davis

Jan 05 Washington state hangs serial killer Westley Allan Dodd, the first such execution in the US in 28 years.

Jan 06 Jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie dies in Englewood, New Jersey, at age 75.

Jan 06 Ballet star Rudolf Nureyev dies in Paris at age 54.

Jan 20 Bill Clinton inaugurated as 42nd President

Feb 01 New York Judge Sol Wachtler indicted for harassing Joy Silverman

Feb 04 Russian space agency tests a 82' wide space mirror

Feb 08 GM sues NBC, alleging that "Dateline NBC" program had rigged 2 car-truck crashes to show that 1973-87 GM pickups were prone to fires

Feb 22 Vinod Kambli scores 224 vs England at Bombay, 411 balls, 23 fours

Feb 10 US officially backs peace plan in Bosnia

Feb 12 A pair of 10-year-olds kidnap and beat to death a two-year-old child at a Liverpool, England shopping mall.

Feb 15 Bombings by Mafia drug lords kill 14 in Bogotá Colombia

Feb 24 35th Grammy Awards Tears in Heaven-Eric Clapton wins

Feb 07 Pebbles Flintstone & Bamm Bamm Rubble wed

Feb 04 Admiral Studeman, ends term as acting director of CIA

Feb 03 Cincinnati Reds owner Marge Schott suspended for 1 year due to racist comments

Feb 06 Riddick Bowe TKOs Michael Dokes in 1 for heavyweight boxing title

Feb 04 Marge Schott suspended from baseball for 1 year due to racism

Feb 11 Baseball pitcher Nolan Ryan announces that he will be retiring after the 1993 season.

Feb 11 Janet Reno selected by Clinton as US Attorney General

Feb 23 Gary Coleman wins $1,280,000 lawsuit against parents for high fees

Feb 27 PBA National Championship Won by Ron Palombi Jr

Feb 26 Terrorist bomb explosion under the World Trade Center, New York

Feb 03 Federal trial of 4 police officers charged with civil rights violations in videotaped beating of Rodney King begins in Los Angeles CA

Feb 26 2nd tallest building in world, NYC World Trade Center bombed, 7 die

Feb 28 Tony Curtis weds Lisa Deutsch as his 4th wife

Feb 21 43rd NBA All-Star Game West beats East 135-132 (OT) at Salt Lake City

Feb 02 Frito Lay pays court ordered $2,500,000 to Tom Waits for using his song, "Step Right Up"

Feb 19 Kenya Moore, 22, (Michigan), crowned 42nd Miss USA

Feb 01 Soyuz TM-16 lands

Feb 03 General Hospital's Tristan Rogers convicted of drunk driving

Feb 26 Six people die and more than a thousand are injured when Islamic extremists explode a bomb in the parking garage of the World Trade Center in New York City.

Feb 11 Janet Reno is named by president Bill Clinton as the first woman to hold the position of U.S. attorney general.

Feb 21 Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record indoor (6.15 meters)

Feb 02 Rebels fire rockets on besieged Afghan capital of Kabul, killing 72 people. (What's changed?)

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