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Events from the year 1993 in the United States .
Incumbents
Federal government George H.W. Bush (R -Texas ) (until January 20) Bill Clinton (D -Arkansas ) (starting January 20) Dan Quayle (R -Indiana ) (until January 20) Al Gore (D -Tennessee ) (starting January 20) Governors and lieutenant governors
Governors
Lieutenant governors Lieutenant Governor of Alabama : Jim Folsom Jr. (Democratic ) (until April 22), vacant (starting April 22) Lieutenant Governor of Alaska : Jack Coghill (Alaskan Independence ) Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas : vacant (until November 20), Mike Huckabee (Republican ) (starting November 20) Lieutenant Governor of California : Leo T. McCarthy (Democratic ) Lieutenant Governor of Colorado : Mike Callihan (Democratic ) Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut : Eunice Groark (A Connecticut ) Lieutenant Governor of Delaware : vacant (until January 19), Ruth Ann Minner (Democratic ) (starting January 19) Lieutenant Governor of Florida : Buddy MacKay (Democratic ) Lieutenant Governor of Georgia : Pierre Howard (Democratic ) Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii : Ben Cayetano (Democratic ) Lieutenant Governor of Idaho : Butch Otter (Republican ) Lieutenant Governor of Illinois : Bob Kustra (Republican ) Lieutenant Governor of Indiana : Frank O'Bannon (Democratic ) Lieutenant Governor of Iowa : Joy Corning (Republican ) Lieutenant Governor of Kansas : Jim Francisco (Democratic ) Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky : Paul E. Patton (Democratic ) Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana : Melinda Schwegmann (Democratic ) Lieutenant Governor of Maryland : Melvin A. Steinberg (Democratic ) Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts : Paul Cellucci (Republican ) Lieutenant Governor of Michigan : Connie Binsfeld (Republican ) Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota : Joanell Dyrstad (Democratic ) Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi : Eddie Briggs (Republican ) Lieutenant Governor of Missouri : Mel Carnahan (Democratic ) (until January 11), Roger B. Wilson (Democratic ) (starting January 11) Lieutenant Governor of Montana : Denny Rehberg (Republican ) Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska : Maxine Moul (Democratic ) (until October), Kim M. Robak (Democratic ) (starting October) Lieutenant Governor of Nevada : Sue Wagner (Republican ) 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 ) Lieutenant Governor of Ohio : Mike DeWine (Republican ) Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma : Jack Mildren (Democratic ) Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania : Mark Singel (Democratic ) Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island : Roger N. Begin (Democratic ) (until January 2), Robert Weygand (Democratic ) (starting January 2) Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina : Nick Theodore (Democratic ) Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota : Walter Dale Miller (Republican ) (until April 19), Steve T. Kirby (Republican ) (starting April 19) Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee : John S. Wilder (Democratic ) Lieutenant Governor of Texas : Bob Bullock (Democratic ) Lieutenant Governor of Utah : W. Val Oveson (Republican ) (until January 4), Olene S. Walker (Republican ) (starting January 4) Lieutenant Governor of Vermont : vacant (until month and day unknown), Barbara W. Snelling (Republican ) (starting month and day unknown) Lieutenant Governor of Virginia : Don Beyer (Democratic ) Lieutenant Governor of Washington : Joel Pritchard (Republican ) Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin : Scott McCallum (Republican )
Events
January 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 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 the 45th vice president . 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
March March 1–April 28 – An outbreak of Cryptosporidium protozoan affects Milwaukee, Wisconsin , infecting over 400,000 people, hospitalizing over 4,000, and killing at least 100, making it the largest waterborne disease outbreak in United States history. March 1 – The NFL introduces its current free agent system. 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 ; the storm kills 318 people. 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 April 19: The Waco Siege ends with a deadly fire April – October: The Great Flood of 1993
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 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. May 20 – President Bill Clinton signs the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 into federal law.
June
July
August
September
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.[ 7] 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.[ 8] October 31 – Actor River Phoenix dies of drug-induced heart failure on the sidewalk outside the West Hollywood nightclub The Viper Room .
November
December December The unemployment rate falls to 6.5%, the lowest since January 1991. ProCharger , an automotive aftermarket manufacturer is founded in Kansas.[ 9] 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 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 Lunokhod 1 and its spacecraft Luna 17 ; they sell for $68,500.
Ongoing
Sport
Births
January Bryson Tiller Ashley Argota Lewis Pullman January 2 – Bryson Tiller , musician January 3 January 5 – De'Anthony Thomas , football player January 7 – Darby Allin , wrestler January 8 – Brooke Greenberg , woman with rare slow-aging condition (d. 2013 ) January 9 January 11 – Flora Cross , French-born actress January 12 – Jamel Artis , basketball player January 13 January 14 January 15 January 17 – Jeremiah Attaochu , Nigerian-born football player January 18 January 19 January 20 – Cat Janice , singer (d. 2024) January 26 – Lizzie Armanto , American-born Finnish skateboarder January 27 – Joe Landolina , inventor and entrepreneur January 29 – Lewis Pullman , actor January 30 – Stephen Anderson , football player January 31 – Alex Bent , drummer for Trivium
February Jennifer Stone Victoria Justice Emily Rudd February 2 – Karsta Lowe , volleyball player February 3 – Brandon Micheal Hall , actor February 6 – Tinashe , musician and actress February 7 – David Dorfman , actor February 9 – Nura Afia , beauty vlogger February 10 – Lexi Atkins , actress, model, and beauty pageant titleholder February 12 February 13 February 14 February 15 – Alex ter Avest , actress February 17 – Jason Anderson , motorcyclist February 18 February 19 February 23 – Andrea Kneppers , American-Dutch swimmer February 24 – Emily Rudd , actress February 25 – Timmy Hill , race car driver February 27 – Jessica Korda , golfer
March Anthony Davis March 1 March 3 – Nicole Gibbs , tennis player March 4 March 5 – Josh Briggs , pro wrestler March 7 – Alex Broadhurst , ice hockey player March 10 – Peniel Shin , rapper and dancer for BTOB March 11 – Anthony Davis , basketball player March 15 – Greg Allen , baseball player March 16 March 18 March 25 – Jarrod Alonge , comedian, songwriter, and music producer March 26 – Paige Spiranac , golfer and model March 29 – Joe Adler , actor
April Sofia Carson Chance the Rapper
May Debby Ryan Miranda Cosgrove Lynn Biyendolo Maika Monroe May 2 – Jarred Brooks , mixed martial artist and current ONE Strawweright World Champion May 6 May 10 May 11 – Annabelle Attanasio , actress and filmmaker May 13 – Debby Ryan , actress and singer May 14 – Miranda Cosgrove , actress and singer May 16 – Raheem Appleby , basketball player May 18 – Kyle , rapper May 19 May 20 – Caroline Zhang , figure skater May 21 May 23 May 24 – Nelson Agholor , Nigerian-born football player May 25 May 26 May 27 – Tanner Anderson , baseball player May 29 – Maika Monroe , actress May 30 – Keanu Asing , surfer
June Swae Lee Gunna Ariana Grande June 1 – Sam Anas , ice hockey player June 2 – Abena Appiah , Ghanaian-born singer, model, and beauty pageant winner June 4 June 5 June 6 – Vic Mensa , rapper June 7 June 9 – Ash Santos , actress June 11 June 13 – Ameer Abdullah , football player June 14 June 15 – Jay Ajayi , British-born football player June 21 – Hungrybox , esports athlete June 22 June 23 – Tim Anderson , baseball player June 26 – Ariana Grande , actress and singer June 29
July Raini Rodriguez Elizabeth Gillies Dak Prescott July 1 – Raini Rodriguez , actress and singer July 2 – Saweetie , rapper July 3 – Mathias Anderle , singer July 5 – Hollie Cavanagh , British-born singer July 7 July 8 – Zach Auguste , basketball player July 9 July 10 – Carlon Jeffery , actor July 18 – Casey Veggies , rapper and songwriter July 21 – Aaron Durley , baseball player July 23 – Lili Simmons , actress and model July 24 – Lucas Adams , actor July 26 July 27 July 28 July 29 – Dak Prescott , football player
August Keke Palmer Lucas Cruikshank August 1 – Tomi Adeyemi , writer August 2 – Manika , singer/songwriter August 3 – Thomas Rawls , football player August 7 – Francesca Eastwood , actress, model, and socialite August 9 August 11 – Alyson Stoner , actress, dancer, and singer August 13 August 20 – MK Nobilette , singer August 22 – Dillon Danis , martial artist August 25 – Alex Arlitt , soccer player August 26 August 27 – Dara Alizadeh , American-born Bermudan Olympic rower August 28 – Chad Buchanan , actor and model August 29
September Blaire White Patrick Schwarzenegger Sonya Deville Ben Platt September 1 – Megan Nicole , singer/songwriter September 5 September 6 September 7 September 9 – Brian Pillman Jr. , wrestler September 10 – Sarah Logan , wrestler September 11 – Farrah Moan , drag queen and entertainer September 12 – Kelsea Ballerini , singer/songwriter September 14 September 16 September 18 – Patrick Schwarzenegger , actor and model September 19 – Mo Alie-Cox , football and basketball player September 20 – Kyle Anderson , American-born Chinese basketball player September 23 – Duke Johnson , football player September 24 September 25 – Zach Tyler Eisen , voice actor September 27 – Brandon Alexander , football player September 30
October Angus T. Jones Tiffany Trump Charlie Kirk Xander Schauffele October 1 – Grayson Murray , golfer (d. 2024) October 2 October 4 – Nick Arbuckle , football player October 5 – Mikey Ambrose , soccer player October 6 – Jourdan Miller , actress October 8 October 9 October 11 October 12 – Bralon Addison , football player October 13 – Tiffany Trump , socialite and model October 14 – Charlie Kirk , conservative commentator October 17 – Witney Carson , dancer and choreographer October 19 October 21 October 22 October 23 October 25 October 26 – Drew Gooden , comedian October 27 – Troy Gentile , actor October 30 – Marcus Mariota , American football player
November Benito Skinner Pete Davidson November 3 – Benito Skinner , online personality November 4 November 8 November 9 – Steven Taylor , cricketer November 11 – Sam Abbas , Egyptian-born director, screenwriter, and producer November 12 – Mackensie Alexander , football player November 13 – Blake Aoki , American-born Japanese basketball player November 15 – Arik Armstead , football player November 16 November 19 – Justin Anderson , basketball player November 27 November 28 November 29 November 30 – Kevon Seymour , football player
December Amouranth Marques Brownlee AnnaSophia Robb December 1 – Drakeo the Ruler , rapper (d. 2021) December 2 December 3 – Marques Brownlee , YouTuber December 5 – Tejay Antone , baseball player December 7 – Jasmine Villegas , singer December 8 – AnnaSophia Robb , actress December 10 – Joey Salads , YouTuber December 11 December 12 – Rilwan Alowonle , American-born Nigerian hurdler December 15 December 18 Byron Buxton , baseball player John Cihangir, actor, stuntman and YouTuber December 19 December 21 – Jinger Vuolo , author December 22 December 25 – Andrea Drews , volleyball player December 29 – Terry Allen , basketball player December 30 – Bradley Adkins , Olympic high jumper December 31 – Ryan Blaney , race car driver
Date unknown 30 Roc , record producer and songwriter Paul Abrahamian , television personality and fashion designer Joo Won Ahn , South Korean-born ballet dancer Albert Alan , financial literacy advocate and author David Onri Anderson , painter, musician, and curator Anjimile , singer/songwriter Austin Armstrong , football player and coach Heather Artinian , hearing-impaired lawyer David Benoit, wrestler and son of Chris Benoit
Deaths
January Dizzy Gillespie Thurgood Marshall January 1 January 3 January 6 – Dizzy Gillespie , American musician, bandleader, singer and composer (b. 1917 ) January 10 January 15 January 16 January 19 January 21 – Charlie Gehringer , American baseball player (b. 1903 ) January 22 – Jim Pollard , American professional basketball player and coach (b. 1922 ) January 23 January 24 – Thurgood Marshall , American jurist, First African-American on the Supreme Court (b. 1908 ) January 25 – Bernard Joseph Smith , American marathon runner; winner of the 1942 Boston Marathon (b. 1917 ) January 27 – J. T. King , American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator (b. 1912 ) January 28 – Vern Kennedy , American MLB pitcher (b. 1907 ) January 29 January 30 – Julia Davis Adams , American author and journalist (b. 1900 )
February Lillian Gish
March Helen Hayes Polykarp Kusch March 1 – Terry Frost , American actor (b. 1906 ) March 3 – Albert Sabin , American biologist, developer of the oral polio vaccine (b. 1906 ) March 4 – Izaak Kolthoff , Dutch-born American chemist (b. 1894 ) March 7 March 8 March 9 March 16 – Ralph Fults , America outlaw (b. 1910 ) March 17 – Helen Hayes , American actress (b. 1900 ) March 20 March 22 – Steve Olin , American baseball player (b. 1965 ) March 23 – Tim Crews , American baseball player (b. 1961 ) March 24 – John Hersey , American writer and journalist (b. 1914 ) March 26 – Louis Falco , American dancer and choreographer (b. 1942 ) March 27 – Elizabeth Holloway Marston , American psychologist (b. 1893 ) March 30 – Richard Diebenkorn , American painter (b. 1922 ) March 31
April Cesar Chavez
May Sun Ra
June Conway Twitty Pat Nixon June 2 – Johnny Mize , American baseball player (b. 1913 ) June 5 – Conway Twitty , American musician (b. 1933 ) June 6 – James Bridges , American screenwriter and director (b. 1936 ) June 8 – Nolan Bailey Harmon , bishop of The Methodist Church and the United Methodist Church (b. 1892 ) June 9 – Alexis Smith , Canadian-born American actress and singer (b. 1921 ) June 10 June 11 – Ray Sharkey , American actor (b. 1952 ) June 12 – Crawford Barton , American photographer (b. 1943 ) June 13 – Deke Slayton , American astronaut (b. 1924 ) June 15 – John Connally , American politician (b. 1917 ) June 19 – Szymon Goldberg , Polish-born violinist (b. 1909 ) June 22 – Pat Nixon , wife of Richard Nixon , First Lady of the United States , Second Lady of the United States (b. 1912 ) June 24 – Archie Williams , American Olympic athlete (b. 1915 ) June 26 – Roy Campanella , American baseball player (b. 1921 ) June 28 – GG Allin , American musician (b. 1956 ) June 29 – Héctor Lavoe , Puerto Rican singer (b. 1946) June 30 – Spanky McFarland , American actor (b. 1928 )
July Davey Allison Matthew Ridgway
August Stewart Granger
September Jimmy Doolittle
October River Phoenix
November Bill Bixby
December Frank Zappa Don Ameche December 1 – Ray Gillen , American singer (b. 1959 ) December 4 – Frank Zappa , American guitarist and composer (b. 1940 ) December 6 – Don Ameche , American actor (b. 1908 ) December 14 – Myrna Loy , American actress (b. 1905 ) December 16 December 17 – Janet Margolin , American actress (b. 1943 ) December 18 – Sam Wanamaker , American film director and actor (b. 1919 ) December 19 – Michael Clarke , American musician (b. 1946 ) December 20 – W. Edwards Deming , American engineer, professor, author, lecturer, and management consultant (b. 1900 ) December 21 – Gussie Nell Davis , American educator and founder of the Kilgore College Rangerettes (b. 1906 ) December 22 December 23 – James Ellison , American actor (b. 1910 ) December 24 – Norman Vincent Peale , American preacher and writer (b. 1898 ) December 27 – Michael Callen , American singer-songwriter, author, and activist (b. 1955 ) December 28 December 31
See also
References ^ "Tributes to Arthur Ashe" . The Independent . 8 February 1993. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. ^ "Archived copy" . The New Yorker . Archived from the original on 2002-10-14. Retrieved 2016-02-07 .{{cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) ^ Altman, Lawrence. Virus that caused deaths among Navajos is isolated , New York Times, November 21, 1993. ^ Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome – United States, 1993 , Centers for Disease Control. ^ Timeline of events in the Dustin Honken case, infamous Iowa killer ^ "Waiting to die: Dustin Lee Honken execution" . Archived from the original on 2020-08-28. Retrieved 2020-09-02 . ^ Wire services. 6 Warships From US Go To Haiti , October 16, 1993, Milwaukee Sentinel. ^ Reinhold, Robert.Thousands Flee As Brush Fires Rake California , October 28, 1993, New York Times. ^ FITI PROCHARGER ATI MAIN WAREHOUSE, 14801 W 114TH TER, LENEXA, Kansas (KS) - Company Profile Archived 2012-07-17 at archive.today ^ Zenko, Micah (3 August 2010). Between Threats and War: U.S. Discrete Military Operations in the Post-Cold War World . Stanford University Press. p. 29. ISBN 978-0-8047-7190-0 . ^ "Eleanor Sanger Dies; TV Producer Was 63" . New York Times . March 8, 1993. Retrieved 5 March 2019 .
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