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1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003).
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January
IBM announces a $4.97 billion loss for 1992 (the largest single-year corporate loss in United States history).
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 No-Fly Zone. 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.
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February
February 8 - General Motors sues NBC, after Dateline NBC allegedly rigged 2 crashes showing that some GM pickups can easily catch fire if hit in certain places. NBC settles the lawsuit the following day.
February 14 - Jamie Bulger's body is found on a disused railway in Liverpool, 2 days after he went missing.
February 17 - A ferry sinks in Haiti, killing approximately 1,215 out of 1,500 passengers.
February 22 - Two 11-year-old boys are charged with the murder of Jamie Bulger.
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March
March 31 - A bug in a program written by Richard Depew sends an article to 200 newsgroups simultaneously. The term spamming is coined by Joel Furr to describe the incident.
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April
April - The Kuwaiti government claims to uncover an Iraqi assassination plot against former U.S. President George H. W. Bush shortly after his visit to Kuwait. Two Iraqi nationals, caught with smuggled hashish and alcohol inside Kuwait, confess to driving a car-bomb into Kuwait on behalf of the Iraq Secret Service. *
April 27 - All members of the Zambia national football team lose their lives in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon in route to Dakar, Senegal to play a qualifiying match against Senegal at the 1994 FIFA World Cup (the most tragic incident to date in African football history).
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May
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June
June 5 - 24 Pakistani soldiers and 75 Somalis are killed killed in a fierce battle in Mogadishu.
June 8 - In Paris, Christian Didier breaks into the home of Rene Bousquet, banker and former Vichy France administrator, and shoots him dead.
Mulitpartyists 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 2 missile engine test stands.
June 20 - Japanese Earthquake: A 7.5 earthquake hits Japan, killing 385 people.
Andrew Wiles wins worldwide fame after presenting his solution for Fermat's Last Theorem, a problem that has been unsolved for more than 3 centuries.
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July
July 1 - Gian Luigi Ferry shoots 8 and injures 6 at the "Pettit and Martin" Law Firm in San Francisco, then shoots himself.
July 19 - U.S. President Bill Clinton announces his 'Don't ask, don't tell' policy regarding gays in the American military.
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August
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September
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October
October 3 - A large scale battle erupts between U.S. forces and local militia in Mogadishu, Somalia; 19 Americans and 500 Somalis are killed.
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November
November 24 - In the United Kingdom, 11-year-olds Robert Thompson and Jon Venables are convicted of the child murder of 2-year-old James Bulger of Liverpool. They are sentenced to be detained at Her Majesty's pleasure, with a recommendation from the trial judge at Preston Crown Court that they be kept in secure accommodation for 'very, very many years to come'.
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December
December 13 - A U-2 Spyplane crashes on a local training flight at Beale AFB in CA; USAF pilot Captain Richard Schneider is killed.
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Births
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January-February
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March-April
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May-June
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July-September
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October-December
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Unknown dates
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Nobel prizes
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Templeton Prize
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Right Livelihood Award|Alternative
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Ship events
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