WHAT HAPPENED IN 1993.
Look what happened the 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)

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)

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

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

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