WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO SEPTEMBER 1993
Find out what all happened January to September 1993

The Sukhumi massacre takes place in Abkhazia. (27. September 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)

Czech Republic and Slovakia join the United Nations. (19. January 1993)

The Republic of Macedonia joins the United Nations. (8. April 1993)

Eritrea gains its independence from Ethiopia. (24. May 1993)

Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People's Republic of China. (27. March 1993)

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

An election takes place in Nigeria which and is later annulled by the military Government led by Ibrahim Babangida. (12. June 1993)

Russian President Boris Yeltsin suspends parliament and scraps the then-functioning constitution, thus triggering the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993. (21. September 1993)

Liechtenstein Prince Hans-Adam II disbands Parliament (15. September 1993)

A barge strikes a railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama, causing the deadliest train wreck in Amtrak history. 47 passengers are killed. (22. September 1993)

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

Dobrinja mortar attack: 13 are killed and 133 wounded when Serb mortar shells are fired at a soccer game in Dobrinja, west of Sarajevo. (1. June 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)

The Blizzard of 1993 – Snow begins to fall across the eastern portion of the US with tornadoes, thunder snow storms, high winds and record low temperatures. The storm lasts for 30 hours. (12. March 1993)

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

Dissolution of Czechoslovakia: Czechoslovakia is divided into Slovakia and the Czech Republic. (1. January 1993)

Janet Reno was sworn in as the United States' first female attorney general. (12. March 1993)

In Thailand, a fire at the Kader Toy Factory kills 156 workers. (10. May 1993)

Turkish journalist and writer Uğur Mumcu is assassinated by a car bomb in Ankara. (24. January 1993)