WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO DECEMBER 1993
Find out what all happened June to December 1993

United States House of Representatives passes resolution to establish the North American Free Trade Agreement after greater authority in trade negotiations was granted to President George Bush in 1991. (17. November 1993)

A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia. (22. September 1993)

Brandon Teena and two others are shot to death inside a farmhouse in Humboldt, Nebraska by John Lotter and Tom Nissen after the two men discovered Teena was transgender. (31. December 1993)

The Rainbow Bridge, connecting Tokyo's Shibaura and the island of Odaiba, is completed. (27. August 1993)

A truce is concluded between the government of Angola and UNITA rebels. (4. December 1993)

Russian Constitutional Crisis: In Moscow, tanks bombard the White House, a government building that housed the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against President Boris Yeltsin rally outside. (4. October 1993)

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

The mayor of Vienna, Helmut Zilk, is injured by a letter bomb. (5. December 1993)

NASA loses contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft. (21. August 1993)

The Troubles: The Ulster Defence Association, an Ulster loyalist paramilitary, carry out a mass shooting at a Halloween party in Greysteel, Northern Ireland. Eight civilians are murdered and thirteen wounded. (30. October 1993)

A sculpture honoring women who served in the Vietnam War is dedicated at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.. (11. November 1993)

Portions of the Holbeck Hall Hotel in Scarborough, in North Yorkshire, England, fall into the sea following a landslide. (5. June 1993)

A China Airlines Boeing 747 overruns Runway 13 at Hong Kong's Kai Tak International Airport while landing during a typhoon, injuring 22 people. (4. November 1993)

37 participants in an Alevi cultural and literary festival are killed when a mob of demonstrators set fire to their hotel in Sivas during a violent protest. (2. July 1993)

The Troubles: The Downing Street Declaration is issued by British Prime Minister John Major and Irish Taoiseach Albert Reynolds. (15. December 1993)

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

Forty-eight people are killed when a block of the Highland Towers collapses near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (11. December 1993)

A federal judge sentences Los Angeles Police Department officers Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell to 30 months in prison for violating motorist Rodney King's civil rights. (4. August 1993)

Anti-Nazism riot breaks out in Welling in Kent, after police stop protesters approaching the British National Party headquarters. (16. October 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)