January 19 – 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 andKuwait, and the northernIraqi no-fly zones. U.S. forces fire approximately 40 Tomahawk cruise missiles atBaghdad factories linked to Iraq's illegal nuclear weapons program (→January 1993 airstrikes on Iraq). Iraq then informs UNSCOM that it will be able to resume its flights.
January 30 - TheRed Line (later known as the B Line) officially begins service inLos Angeles, becoming the first undergroundrapid transit line to open in almost 70 years.
March 8 – The Moon moves into its nearest point to Earth, called perigee, at the same time as its fullest phase of the Lunar Cycle. The Moon appears to be 14% bigger and 30% brighter than the year's other full moons. The next time these two events coincided was in 2008.[3]
March 13–15 – TheGreat Blizzard of 1993 strikes the eastern U.S., bringing record snowfall and other severe weather all the way fromCuba toQuebec; it reportedly kills 184 people.[5]
South Africa officially abandons itsnuclear weapons programme. President de Klerk announces that the country's six warheads had already been dismantled in1989.
April 16 –Bosnian War: the enclave ofSrebrenica is declared a UN-protected "safe area". Also members of the Jokeri unit of theHVO entered the village ofAhmići and killed 120 muslim residents.
April 21 – The Supreme Court inLa Paz,Bolivia, sentences former dictatorLuis Garcia Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.
Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq refuses to allowUNSCOM weapons inspectors to install remote-controlled monitoring cameras at two missile engine test stands.
June 24 – UK mathematicianAndrew Wiles wins worldwide fame after presenting his proof ofFermat's Last Theorem, a problem that had been unsolved for more than three centuries.
July 7 –Hurricane Calvin lands in Mexico. It is the second Pacific hurricane on record to land in Mexico in July and kills 34.
July 12 – The 7.7 MwHokkaidō earthquake affects northern Japan with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe) and triggers a devastatingtsunami that kills 230 on the small island ofOkushiri, Hokkaido.
Oslo I Accord: Following initially secret talks from earlier in the year,PLO leaderYasser Arafat andIsraeli prime ministerYitzhak Rabin shake hands in Washington, D.C. after signing a peace accord.
September 15–21 –Hurricane Gert crosses from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean through Central America and Mexico.
September 17 – Russian troops withdraw from Poland.
October 9 – The South Korean ferrySeohae capsizes offPusan, South Korea; 292 are killed.
October 11–28 – TheUNMIH is prevented from enteringHaiti by its military-led regime. OnOctober 18,United Nations economic sanctions (abolished in August) are reinstated. U.S. President Bill Clinton sends 6 American warships to enforce them.
October 27–31 – The Southland Firestorm, formed of more than fourteen separate fires in Southern California burning simultaneously, burns more than 700 homes and 160,000 acres.[19] Two of these fire are theLaguna Fire which burned more than 16,000 acres (6,500 hectares), destroyed hundreds of homes and caused $528 million in damage inOrange County, California, and theKinneloa Fire inLos Angeles County, California which caused a fatality.
The 32-member Transitional Executive Committee holds its first meeting[37] inCape Town, marking the first meeting of an official government body in South Africa with Black members.
Argentina passes a measure allowing PresidentCarlos Menem and all future presidents to run for a second consecutive term. It also shortens presidential terms to four years and removes the requirement for the president to beRoman Catholic.[51]
^Jeffery, Anthea (2009).People's War - New Light on the Struggle for South Africa (1st ed.). Johannesburg & Cape Town: Jonathan Ball Publishers.ISBN978-1-86842-357-6.
^"TRC Reports on St James Church Massacre".South African History Online. Truth and Reconciliation Commission.Archived from the original on January 31, 2015. RetrievedJanuary 31, 2015.A terrorist attack on St. James Church in Cape Town, South Africa left 11 people dead and 58 wounded.
