WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO MAY 1993
Find out what all happened January to May 1993

Five people are shot outside the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Two are killed and three wounded. (25. January 1993)

In Moscow, Russia, George Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START). (3. January 1993)

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is officially observed for the first time in all 50 states. (18. January 1993)

Gary Bettman becomes the NHL's first commissioner (1. February 1993)

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. (11. March 1993)

An IRA bomb devastates the Bishopsgate area of London. (24. April 1993)

Bosnian War: The Bosnian Army executes a surprise attack on the village of Kravica in Srebrenica. (7. January 1993)

Sri Lankan politician Lalith Athulathmudali is assassinated while addressing a gathering, approximately 4 weeks ahead of the Provincial Council elections for the Western Province. (23. April 1993)

All members of the Zambia national football team lose their lives in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon en route to Dakar, Senegal to play a 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Senegal. (27. April 1993)

North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea says that it plans to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and refuses to allow inspectors access to its nuclear sites. (12. March 1993)

Sri Lankan Civil War: The Sri Lanka Navy kill 35-100 civilians on the Jaffna Lagoon. (2. January 1993)

Eritreans vote overwhelmingly for independence from Ethiopia in a United Nations-monitored referendum. (23. April 1993)

450 prisoners rioted at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and continued to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions, as well as the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis) against their religious beliefs. (11. April 1993)

Version 1.0 of the Mosaic web browser is released. (22. April 1993)

Indian Border Security Force units kill 55 Kashmiri civilians in Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir, in revenge after militants ambushed a BSF patrol. (6. January 1993)

Several bombs explode in Bombay (Mumbai), India, killing about 300 and injuring hundreds more. (12. March 1993)

Warrington Bomb victim Tim Parry dies five days after the IRA bomb detonated in Warrington, Cheshire on 20 March 1993 in the second of the Warrington bomb attacks. (25. March 1993)

The 51-day siege of the Branch Davidian building outside Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Eighty-one people die. (19. April 1993)

CERN announces World Wide Web protocols will be free. (30. April 1993)

The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis Garcia Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution. (21. April 1993)