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1993 Calendar

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•  January 5, 1993 – The oil tanker MV Braer runs aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands, spilling 84,700 tons of crude oil.
•  January 6, 1993 – Indian Border Security Force units kill 55 Kashmiri civilians in Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir, in revenge after militants ambushed a BSF patrol.
•  January 23, 1993 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Rooster in Chinese astrology.
•  April 23, 1993 – Eritreans vote overwhelmingly for independence from Ethiopia in a United Nations-monitored referendum.
•  July 28, 1993 – Andorra joins the United Nations.
•  August 1, 1993 – The Great Flood of 1993 comes to a peak.
•  August 4, 1993 – A federal judge sentences LAPD officers Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell to 30 months in prison for violating motorist Rodney King’s civil rights.
•  August 21, 1993 – NASA loses contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft.
•  October 16, 1993 – Anti-Nazi riot breaks out in Welling in Kent, after police stop protesters approaching the British National Party headquarters.
•  October 30, 1993 – Greysteel massacre: The Ulster Freedom Fighters, a loyalist terrorist group, open fire on a crowded bar in Greysteel, Northern Ireland. Eight civilians are killed and thirteen wounded.

•  January 12, 1993 – Aika Mitsui, Japanese singer
•  January 29, 1993 – Michelle Larcher de Brito, Portuguese tennis player
•  May 24, 1993 – Oliver Davis, American actor
•  July 6, 1993 – Jeremiah Godby, American ultramarathon runner
•  July 26, 1993 – Taylor Momsen, American actress and singer
•  August 3, 1993 – Yurina Kumai, Japanese singer
•  September 3, 1993 – Rina Koike, Japanese junior idol
•  September 19, 1993 – Kshitij Patil, Indian Dancer
•  October 8, 1993 – Molly C. Quinn, American actress
•  December 22, 1993 – Ali Lohan, American singer