WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO AUGUST 1993
Find out what all happened January to August 1993

Andorra joins the United Nations. (28. July 1993)

Great Flood of 1993: levees near Kaskaskia, Illinois rupture, forcing the entire town to evacuate by barges operated by the Army Corps of Engineers. (22. July 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)

The Galileo spacecraft discovers a moon, later named Dactyl, around 243 Ida, the first known asteroid moon. (23. August 1993)

The Republic of Macedonia joins the United Nations. (8. April 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)

Catherine Callbeck becomes premier of Prince Edward Island and the first woman to be elected in a general election as premier of a Canadian province. (29. March 1993)

EU - riots in Nørrebro, Copenhagen caused by the approval of the four Danish exceptions in the Maastricht Treaty referendum. Police opened fire against civilians for the first time since World War II and injured 11 demonstrators. In total 113 bullets are fired. (18. May 1993)

Eritrea and Monaco join the United Nations. (28. May 1993)

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

General Motors sues NBC after Dateline NBC allegedly rigs two crashes intended to demonstrate that some GM pickups can easily catch fire if hit in certain places. NBC settles the lawsuit the next day. (8. February 1993)

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

Mongolia holds its first direct presidential elections. (6. June 1993)

After rounds of secret negotiations in Norway, the Oslo Accords are signed, followed by a public ceremony in Washington, D.C. the following month. (20. August 1993)

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

Space Shuttle program: Endeavour heads for space for the third time as STS-54 launches from the Kennedy Space Center. (13. January 1993)

Sumitomo Chemical's resin plant in Nihama explodes, killing one worker and injuring three others. (4. July 1993)

South Dakota governor George Mickelson and seven others are killed when a state-owned aircraft crashes in Iowa. (19. April 1993)

Israel launches a massive attack against Lebanon in what the Israelis call Operation Accountability, and the Lebanese call the Seven-Day War. (25. July 1993)