* Walter Scott Houston ( 1912 – 1993 ) who wrote the " Deep-Sky Wonders " column in Sky & Telescope magazine for almost 50 years.

* 1913 – Shannon Boyd-Bailey McCune, American geographer ( d. 1993 )

* 1941 – Bobby Moore, English footballer ( d. 1993 )

* 1993 – CERN announces World Wide Web protocols will be free.

* 1993 – Virgin Radio broadcasts for the first time in the United Kingdom.

* 1993 – Monica Seles is stabbed by Günter Parche, an obsessed fan, during a quarterfinal match of the 1993 Citizen Cup in Hamburg, Germany

* 1993 – The Rainbow Bridge, connecting Tokyo's Shibaura and the island of Odaiba, is completed.

* 1916 – Tony Harris, South African cricketer ( d. 1993 )

* 1993 – Sarah Hecken, German figure skater

* 1993 – Heavy rains and debris kill 72 in the Kagoshima and Aira areas of Kyushu, Japan.

* 1904 – Henry Iba, American basketball player and coach ( d. 1993 )

* 1945 – Ron Jones, English director ( d. 1993 )

* 1949 – Dino Bravo, Italian-Canadian wrestler ( d. 1993 )

* 1993 – The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan loses a 38-year hold on national leadership.

* 1920 – Francis Lynch, American politician ( d. 1993 )

* Maj .- Gen. Dadash Rzayev ( February – June 1993 )

* Colonel Safar Abiyev ( June – August 1993 )

* Maj .- Gen. Vahid Musayev ( August – September 1993 )

* 1958 – Randy Shughart, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient ( d. 1993 )

* 1993 – Dominika Stará, Slovak singer

After re-establishing its credibility in 1989, Australia underlined its superiority with victories in the 1990 – 91, 1993, 1994 – 95, 1997, 1998 – 99, 2001 and 2002 – 03 series, all by convincing margins.

Since October 1993 the nation has suffered from massive ethnic-based violence which has resulted in the death of perhaps 250, 000 people and the displacement of about 800, 000 others.

Over 4 million Cambodians ( about 90 % of eligible voters ) participated in the May 1993 elections, although the Khmer Rouge or Party of Democratic Kampuchea ( PDK ), whose forces were never actually disarmed or demobilized, barred some people from participating.

* 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.

According to a 1993 study of archival Soviet data, a total of 1, 053, 829 people died in the Gulag from 1934 to 1953.

* 1993 – Five people are shot outside the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, resulting in two dead and three wounded.

On August 6, 1993, heavy torrential rain caused extensive flooding and landslides in the area including Ryugamizu, where 49 people lost their lives from the disaster.

On June 14, 1993, the people of Malawi voted overwhelmingly in favor of multi-party democracy.

The controversy surrounded the mosque was directly linked to rioting in Bombay ( present-day Mumbai ) as well as bombings in 1993 that killed 257 people.

* 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.

However, the transition from Modernism to Postmodernism is often said to have happened at 3: 32pm on the 15th of July in 1972, when Pruitt Igoe ; a housing development for low-income people in St. Louis, which had been a prize winning version of le Corbusier's ' machine for modern living ' was deemed uninhabitable and was torn down ( Irving 1993, 480 ).

In 1993, PLO recognized Israel's right to exist in peace, accepted UN Security Council resolutions 242 and 338, and rejected " violence and terrorism "; in response, Israel officially recognized the PLO as the representative of the Palestinian people.

* 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.

This report, commissioned by the U. S. Congress in 1993, was developed via extensive hearings across the nation from all interested stakeholders, by a committee of talented people.

" We felt ' Popscene ' was a big departure ; a very, very English record ", Albarn told the NME in 1993, " But that annoyed a lot of people ... We put ourselves out on a limb to pursue this English ideal and no-one was interested.

In 1993, erotic fiction author Zheng Yi wrote the controversial book Scarlet Memorial: Tales Of Cannibalism In Modern China, alleging “ systematic killing and cannibalization of individuals in the name of political revolution and ' class struggle '” among the Zhuang people in Wuxuan County, Guangxi, during that period.

In 1993, a car bomb exploded in Via dei Georgofili and damaged parts of the palace, killing five people.

In 1993, Belgium's Parliament voted a " law of universal jurisdiction " ( sometimes referred to as " Belgium's genocide law "), allowing it to judge people accused of war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide.

On 12 February 1993 President Yeltsin issued a presidential decree “ On Public Order Militia in the Russian Federation ” increasing the number of local militia by 84, 500 .< Ref > MVD v Litsakh, Vladimir Nekrasov, Molodaya Gvardiya, 2000, p260 .</ ref > At the beginning of 1994 the local militia had 442, 000 people, 27 % short of their full complement.

Yeltsin ’ s early purges of the MVD paid dividends in October 1993 when in spite of many " defections " to the opposition, the two most important people in the ministry, Minister of Internal Affairs Viktor Yerin and the Commander of Internal Troops Anatoliy Kulikov, stood by him to the victorious end of his stand-off with the Supreme Soviet.

* Noyes, Stanley ( 1993 ) Los Comanches the horse people, 1751-1845.

In 1993, a publication of the Ministry of Public Security praised Li for " promoting the traditional crime-fighting virtues of the Chinese people, in safeguarding social order and security, and in promoting rectitude in society.

For example, in 1993, references to the Queen were removed from the Oath of Citizenship, sworn by naturalised Australians, who would now pledge loyalty to " Australia and its people.

In 2010, the caravan of artists and crew contained 700 people, compared to the 70 who crossed Australia in 1993.

The author conservatively takes the lowest available estimate of the deaths: over two million people died in the expulsions ...." Ottawa Citizen 16 October 1993.