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** Long Beach, California – Third largest city in Southern California, One of many cities in the region with a large Mexican / Hispanic population.
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** Colin Ferguson opens fire with his Ruger 9 mm pistol on a Long Island Rail Road train, killing 6 and injuring 19.
** Avianca Flight 52 crashes into Cove Neck, Long Island, after a miscommunication between the flight crew and JFK Airport officials, killing 73 people on board.
** A Long March 3 rocket at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China crashes into a rural village after liftoff, killing as many as 50.
** Paris and Rome-bound TWA Flight 800 ( Boeing 747 ) explodes off the coast of Long Island, New York, killing all 230 on board.
** Colin Ferguson is convicted of 6 counts of murder for the December 1993 Long Island Rail Road shootings and later receives a 25-year sentence for each of the 6 murders.
** The first reported medical waste on beaches in the Greater New York area ( including hypodermic needles and syringes possibly infected with the AIDS virus ) washes ashore on Long Island.
** Internment in Northern Ireland: British security forces arrest hundreds of nationalists and detain them without trial in Long Kesh prison ; 20 people die in the riots that follow.
** and Beach
** In the southeast of the state, South Florida, consisting of the anchor cities of Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and West Palm Beach.
** John Fairfax lands in Hollywood Beach, Florida near Miami and becomes the first person to row across an ocean solo, after 180 days spent at sea on board 25 ' ocean rowboat ' Britannia ' ( left Gran Canaria on January 20, 1969 ).
** The North Cape Oil Spill occurs as an engine fire forces the tugboat Scandia ashore on Moonstone Beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island.
** William Kennedy Smith, a nephew of U. S. Senator Edward Kennedy, is identified as a suspect in an alleged Palm Beach, Florida sexual assault.
** The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces its intention to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri.
** Larry Walters, a. k. a. Lawn Chair Larry, flies above Long Beach, California in a lawn chair with weather balloons attached.
** Hands Across America: At least 5, 000, 000 people form a human chain from New York City to Long Beach, California, to raise money to fight hunger and homelessness.
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