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Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico: Casey Luna (Democratic)
Lieutenant Governor of New York: Stan Lundine (Democratic)
Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina: James Carson Gardner (Republican) (until month and day unknown), Dennis A. Wicker (Democratic) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota: Rosemarie Myrdal (Republican)
January 20: Bill Clinton becomes the 42nd U.S. President
January 20: Al Gore becomes the 45th U.S. Vice President
January 3 – In Moscow, George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.
January 5
The state of Washington executes Westley Allan Dodd by hanging (the first legal hanging in America since 1965).
$7,400,000 USD is stolen from Brinks Armored Car Depot in Rochester, New York in the fifth-largest robbery in U.S. history. Four men, Samuel Millar, Father Patrick Moloney, former Rochester Police officer Thomas O'Connor, and Charles McCormick, all of whom have ties to the Provisional Irish Republican Army, are accused.
January 19
IBM announces a $4,970,000,000 loss for 1992, the largest single-year corporate loss in United States history to date.
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 Iraqi no-fly zones. U.S. forces fire approximately forty 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.
January 20 – Bill Clinton is sworn in as the 42nd President of the United States, and Al Gore is sworn in as Vice President of the United States.
January 25 – Mir Aimal Kasi fires a rifle and kills two employees outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
January 31 – Super Bowl XXVII: The Buffalo Bills become the first team to lose three consecutive Super Bowls as they are defeated by the Dallas Cowboys, 52–17.
February[]
February 26: World Trade Center bombing
February 6 – Former tennis player Arthur Ashe, 49, dies of complications due to HIV in New York. Ashe was believed to have contracted the virus from a blood transfusion during a heart surgery ten years earlier.[1]
February 8 – General Motors Corporation sues NBC, after Dateline NBC allegedly rigged two crashes showing that some GM pickups can easily catch fire if hit in certain places. NBC settles the lawsuit the following day.
February 11 – Janet Reno is selected by President Clinton as Attorney General of the United States.
February 26 – 1993 World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a van bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, killing six and injuring over 1,000.
February 28 – Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents raid the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, with a warrant to arrest leader David Koresh on federal firearms violations. Four agents and five Davidian die in the raid and a 51-day standoff begins.
March[]
March 1–April 28 – An epidemic affects Milwaukee, Wisconsin, infecting over four hundred thousand people, hospitalizing over four thousand, and killing at least one hundred, making it the largest waterborne disease outbreak in United States history.
March 4 – Authorities announce the capture of suspected World Trade Center bombing conspirator Mohammad Salameh.
March 9 – Rodney King testifies at the federal trial of four Los Angeles, California police officers accused of violating his civil rights when they beat him during an arrest.
March 11 – Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn in the next day, becoming the first female Attorney General of the United States.
March 13–14 – The Great Blizzard of 1993 strikes the eastern United States, bringing record snowfall and other severe weather all the way from Cuba to Quebec; it reportedly kills 184.
March 22 – The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips.
March 29 – The 65th Academy Awards, hosted by Billy Crystal, are held at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, with Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven winning four awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. Both the film and James Ivory's Howards End lead the nominations with nine each. The telecast garners 45.7 million viewers.
April–October: The Great Flood of 1993: The Mississippi and Missouri Rivers flood large portions of the American Midwest.
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 confess to driving a car bomb into Kuwait on behalf of the Iraqi Intelligence Service.[2]
April 2 – The Adventures of Huck Finn, directed by Stephen Sommers and based on Mark Twain's 1884 novel of the same name, is released in theaters.
April 9 – The rock band Nirvana plays a benefit concert for rape victims in war-torn Bosnia-Herzegovina at San Francisco's Cow Palace.
April 19 – A 51-day stand-off at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, ends with a fire that kills 76 people, including David Koresh.
April 28 – An executive order requires the United States Air Force to allow women to fly war planes.
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 3 – Rio Grande City in Texas officially incorporates into a city.[5]
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[]
June 5 – Minnesota v. Dickerson: The United States Supreme Court rules that the seizure of evidence during a pat-down search is constitutional.
June 9 – The Montreal Canadiens win their 24th Stanley Cup, defeating the Los Angeles Kings in the Finals.
June 11 – Jurassic Park, directed by Steven Spielberg, is released in theaters as the first film in the Jurassic Park saga.
June 20 – John Paxson's 3-point shot in Game 6 of the NBA Finals helps the Chicago Bulls secure a 99–98 win over the Phoenix Suns, and their third consecutive championship.
June 24 – A Unabomber bomb injures computer scientist David Gelernter at Yale University.
June 27 – U.S. President Bill Clinton orders a cruise missile attack on Iraqi intelligence headquarters in the Al-Mansur District of Baghdad, in response to the attempted assassination of former U.S. President George H. W. Bush during his visit to Kuwait in mid-April.
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 dies by 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.[6][7]
July 27 – Windows NT 3.1, the first version of Microsoft's line of Windows NT operating systems, is released to manufacturing.
August[]
August 1 – The Great Flood of 1993 comes to a peak.
August 4 – A federal judge sentences LAPDofficersStacey Koon and Laurence Powell to 30 months in prison for violating motoristRodney King's civil rights.
August 10 – World Youth Day 1993 in Denver, Colorado. Ruth Bader Ginsburg is sworn-in as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court.
August 21 – NASA loses contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft.
August 28 – Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, the first Power Rangers entry, debuts on Fox Kids.
September[]
September 4 – The second World Parliament of Religions is held in Chicago.
September 6 – Canadian software specialist Peter de Jager publishes an article titled "Doomsday 2000" in the U.S. weekly magazine Computerworld, which is the first known reference to Y2K – the Year 2000 problem.
September 10 – Bill Nye the Science Guy first airs in syndication.
September 13
PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin shake hands in Washington D.C., after signing a peace accord.
Animaniacs makes its debut on Fox Kids.
September 18 – Rocko's Modern Life makes its debut on Nickelodeon, becoming the network's fourth "Nicktoon" in the line-up.
September 22 – Big Bayou Canot rail accident: An AmtrakSunset Limited derails on a bridge which had been damaged by a barge near Mobile, Alabama. It is the deadliest train wreck in Amtrak's history.
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.[8]
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.[9]
October 31 – Actor River Phoenix dies of drug-induced heart failure on the sidewalk outside the West Hollywood nightclub The Viper Room.
November[]
November 11 – Microsoft releases Windows 3.11 for Workgroups to manufacturing.
November 18 – In a status referendum, Puerto Rico residents vote with a slim margin to maintain Commonwealth status.
November 17–22 – The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) passes the legislative houses in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
November 18 – The first meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation opens in Seattle.
November 20 – Savings and loan crisis: The United States Senate Ethics Committee issues a stern censure of California senator Alan Cranston for his dealings with savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating.
November 22 – TV Food Network makes its debut.
November 30 – President Clinton signs the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act into law, requiring purchasers of handguns to pass a background check.
December[]
December – The unemployment rate falls to 6.5%, the lowest since January 1991.
December 2 – STS-61: NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair an optical flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope.
December 7
Colin Ferguson opens fire with his Ruger9 mm pistol on a Long Island Rail Road train, killing six and injuring 29.
Avi Arad founds Marvel Studios.
December 11 – A variety of Soviet space program paraphernalia are put to auction in Sotheby's New York, and sell for a total of US$6,800,000. One of the items is Lunokhod1 and its spacecraft Luna 17; they sell for $68,500.
Ongoing[]
Iraqi no-fly zones (1991–2003)
Sport[]
February 23 - Sacramento Gold Miners are established as the First American franchise in the Canadian Football League
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