WHAT ALL HAPPENED SEPTEMBER TO DECEMBER 1993
Find out what all happened September to December 1993

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

Space Shuttle program: STS-61 – NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. (2. December 1993)

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

The Troubles: A Provisional IRA bomb prematurely detonates in the Shankill area of Belfast, killing the bomber and nine civilians. Ulster loyalists retaliate a week later with the Greysteel massacre. (23. October 1993)

Israel and Vatican City establish diplomatic relations. (30. December 1993)

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

The last shift leaves Wearmouth Colliery in Sunderland. The closure of the 156-year-old pit marks the end of the old County Durham coalfield, which had been in operation since the Middle Ages. (10. December 1993)

The Maastricht Treaty takes effect, formally establishing the European Union. (1. November 1993)

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

American National Football League awards 30th franchise to the Jacksonville Jaguars. (30. November 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)

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)

In Nigeria, General Sani Abacha ousts the government of Ernest Shonekan in a military coup. (17. November 1993)

The Long Island Rail Road massacre: Passenger Colin Ferguson murders six people and injures 19 others on the LIRR in Nassau County, New York. (7. December 1993)

Anti-Nazism riot breaks out in Welling in Kent, after police stop protesters approaching the British National Party headquarters. (16. October 1993)

An earthquake hits India's Latur and Osmanabad district of Marathwada (Aurangabad division) in Maharashtra state leaving tens of thousands of people dead and many more homeless. (30. September 1993)

The Palestine Liberation Organization officially recognizes Israel as a legitimate state. (9. 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)

Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is shot and killed in Medellín. (2. December 1993)