Historical Events In 1993

Jan 01   12 member European Economic Community set up vast free trade zone.   

Jan 01   Cigarette advertisements are banned in New York City NY's MTA   

Jan 01   Czechoslovakia separates into Czech Republic (Bohemia) and Slovakia.   

Jan 01   Czechoslovakia split into two separate states.   

Jan 01   Czechoslovakia splits into two new countries, the Czech Republic and Slovakia   

Jan 01   Harry Connick Jr arrested at a New York airport for gun possession   

Jan 03   Junk bond king Michael Milkin is released from jail after 22 months.   

Jan 03   The Russian and American leaders sign the second START agreement in Moscow   

Jan 03   U.S. President George Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign a treaty to reduce the inventory of nuclear missiles   

Jan 05   Brian Lara completes 277 vs Australia at cricket SCG   

Jan 05   George L George, Russian/US journalist/director/producer, dies at 85   

Jan 05   Off the Shetland Islands, in Britain Liberian-registered oil tanker Braer, bound for Canada, hits a reef off Shetland and goes aground, spilling its 90 million litres of crude oil into the North Sea   

Jan 05   Price is Right model Janice Pennington sues CBS for show accident   

Jan 05   Reggie Jackson elected to Hall of Fame.   

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

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

Jan 06   Bill Wyman announces he will leave Rolling Stones.   

Jan 06   Elisabeth, arch duch of Austria/princess of Liechtenstein, dies at 70.   

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

Jan 06   Jean Mueller discovers comet Mueller/1993a   

Jan 06   Last day of Test cricket for Greg Matthews   

Jan 07   The U.S. EPA classifies environmental tobacco smoke as a carcinogen   

Jan 08   Elvis Presley Commemorative Postage Stamp goes on sale.   

Jan 08   NBC offers "Tonight Show" to David Letterman   

Jan 09   Alois Brunner, German/Syrian commandant of KZ-Lower Drancy, dies   

Jan 11   Henry Birks and Sons jewelry chain files for bankruptcy protection; closes 34 of its 112 stores, then sells another 39 stores to an Italian jewellery group   

Jan 11   Howard Stern's radio show begins transmitting to Buffalo NY (WKBW)   

Jan 11   Independent presidential candidate Ross Perot publicly returns to politics   

Jan 12   Carles Mira, Spanish director (Que Nos Quiten Lo Bailao), dies at 45.   

Jan 12   Doctors announce Pittsburgh Penguin Mario Limeux has Hodgkin's disease   

Jan 13   Rene Pleven, PM of France (1950-51, 51-52), dies.   

Jan 13   STS-54 (Endeavour) launches into orbit   

Jan 14   David Letterman announces his show is moving from NBC to CBS.   

Jan 14   Polish ferry boat capsizes in storm, 50 die.   

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Jan 01   June Clayworth, actress (Bodyguard, Criminal Court), dies of lymphoma on this day in history.   

Jan 03   Peter Brocco, blacklisted in the 1950's, dies of heart attack at 89 on this day in history.   

Jan 04   Daniel H Craven, South African rugby coach, dies in the year 1993.   

Jan 05   George L George, Russian/US journalist/director/producer, dies at 85 on this day in history.   

Jan 06   In the year 1993 elisabeth, arch duch of Austria/princess of Liechtenstein, dies at 70   

Jan 07   On this day in history richard Branda, actor (2 Minute Warning), dies of colon cancer at 57   

Jan 08   On this day in history asif Nawaz, Pakistani general, dies   

Jan 09   On this day in history alois Brunner, German/Syrian commandant of KZ-Lower Drancy, dies