WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO AUGUST 1993
Find out what all happened March to August 1993

Pope John Paul II starts his 8th annual World Youth Day in Denver's Mile High Stadium. (12. August 1993)

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

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

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

An earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter Scale hits the South Island of New Zealand. (10. August 1993)

Agdam was occupied by Armenian separatists. (23. July 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 Rainbow Bridge, connecting Tokyo's Shibaura and the island of Odaiba, is completed. (27. August 1993)

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

The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path. (22. March 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)

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

The Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood of 1993 comes to a peak. (1. August 1993)

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

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

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