America 1993

Jan. 5 Reggie Jackson elected to Hall of Fame

Jan. 6 Bill Wyman announces he will leave Rolling Stones

Jan. 8 Chicago Bull Michael Jordan scores his 20,000th career point

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

Jan. 18 Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday observed in all 50 states for 1st time

Jan. 20 William J. Clinton inaugurated as 42nd president

Jan. 23 50th Golden Globes: Scent of a Woman, wins

Jan. 23 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Nancy Kerrigan

Jan. 25 20th American Music Award: Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey win

Jan. 25 Sears announces it is closing its catalog sales department after 97 years

Feb. 8 General Motors sues NBC, alleging that Dateline NBC program had rigged 2 car-truck crashes to show that 1973-87 GM pickups were prone to fires

Feb. 10 Michael Jackson Talks To Oprah Winfrey airs on ABC and drew an astounding 39.3 rating/56 share, 90 million people

Feb. 26 2nd tallest building in world, New York City World Trade Center bombed, 7 die

Feb. 28 Gun battle erupts at Waco, Texas, between FBI and Branch Davidians

March 29 65th Academy Awards: Unforgiven, Al Pacino and Emma Thompson win

April 19 Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas, commit suicide after 51 day siege

April 20 Uranus passes Neptune (once every 171 years)

April 25 Russia elects Boris Yeltsin leader

May 10 Paul Cezannes still life sells for $28.6 million in New York City

May 17 Intel's new Pentium processor is unveiled

May 19 Dow Jones closes above 3,500 for 1st time (3,500.03)

May 20 10m meteor comes within 150,000 km of Earth (1993KA)

May 20 Cheers ends NBC run with 274th show. The bar is closed.

May 26 Emmy 20th Daytime Award presentation; Susan Lucci loses for 14th time

June 7 Prince celebrated his birthday by changing his name to a symbol

June 23 Lorena Gallo Bobbitt amputates husband's penis

June 24 Arab terror group plans bombing of Holland/Lincoln Tunnels caught

July 4 Pizza Hut blimp deflates and lands safely on W. 56th street in New York City

July 6 John F. Kennedy Jr., gives notice of quitting as ADA in Manhattan

Oct. 7 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Toni Morrison

Nov. 14 Don Shula becomes winningest coach in NFL history

Nov. 16 Russian President Yeltsin shuts Lenin museum

Nov. 17 U.S. House of Representatives approve Nafta

Nov. 30 President Clinton signs Brady Gun Control Bill

Dec. 31 Barbra Striesand does her 1st live public concert in 20 years