America 1993
Edited by Lisa Casinger -- Home Accents Today, 6/1/2005
- 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
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