* 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.

* Rising Sun Bar massacre, another name for the 1993 Greysteel massacre

One of the most high profile UDA attacks came in October 1993, when three masked men attacked a restaurant called the Rising Sun in the predominantly Catholic village of Greysteel, County Londonderry, where two hundred people were celebrating Halloween.

* 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.

* 1993 – The Saint James Church massacre occurs in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa.

* 1993 – The Sukhumi massacre takes place in Abkhazia.

Bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh claimed he bombed the building in retaliation for the 1993 Waco massacre.

Eric Sundquist, in his book To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Culture ( 1993 ), described the novel as " probably the most astute political-historical novel of its day ", both in terms of recounting the massacre and reflecting the complicated social times in which Chesnutt wrote it.

Prior to the massacre, Barton had been a suspect in the 1993 beating deaths of his first wife, Debra Spivey, and her mother, Eloise Spivey, in Cherokee County, Alabama.

During the 1992-1995 Bosnian War, the village was badly damaged in the 1993 attack, and in 1995 was place of a major killings during the Srebrenica massacre.

On December 6, 1993, for only the second time in its history, The New Yorker devoted its entire issue to one article, Danner's piece, " The Truth of El Mozote ", an investigation into the El Mozote massacre in El Salvador, thought to be the worst atrocity in modern Latin American history.

On 10 September 1993 seventy Somalis and CAM supporters occupied the United States embassy after an alleged massacre of civilians in Mogadishu-the only time it has happened.

Aziz Nesin, the Turkish translator, was the intended target in the events that led to the Sivas massacre on 2 July 1993 in Sivas, Turkey, which resulted in the deaths of 37 people.

Ahmići massacre in April 1993, was the culmination of the Lašva Valley ethnic cleansing, resulting in mass killing of Bosnian Muslim civilians just in a few hours.

On December 22, 1993, historians from Florida State University, Florida A & M University, and the University of Florida delivered a 100-page report ( with 400 pages of attached documentation ) on the Rosewood massacre.

The massacre in the village of Ahmići, on 16 April 1993, is an example of the savagery of the terror.

On 18 September 1993, however, Gavin Hewitt ( Head of South East Asia Department of the Foreign Office, UK ) stated that " No new evidence has been uncovered by the British authorities to warrant the setting up of another official inquiry into the alleged massacre of 24 villagers in Batang Kali …"

In a journal article entitled “ The Crow Creek Massacre: Initial Coalescent Warfare and Speculations about the Genesis of Extended Coalescent ,” Zimmerman and Bradley propose that the conditions faced by the Crow Creek villagers were not short term and had been prevalent in the population prior to the massacre based on the evidence of “ active and organizing subperiostial hematomas along with the other bony alterations ” found while examining remains ( Zimmerman and Bradley 1993: 218 ).

The Brown's Chicken massacre was a mass murder that occurred at a Brown's Chicken restaurant in Palatine, Illinois, a northwest suburb of Chicago, in the United States in 1993.

The massacre occurred on January 8, 1993, when two assailants robbed the Brown's Chicken restaurant and then proceeded to murder seven employees.

** Candelária massacre, 1993 massacre near the church

At one point, Nascimento resided in the area of Candelaria, a historical church in Rio de Janeiro, where he witnessed the Candelaria church massacre on July 23, 1993.

On 10 December 1992, a group of villagers reported the existence of a clandestine grave in Plan de Sánchez and, on 7 May 1993, Ramiro de León Carpio, the country's human rights ombudsman ( Procurador de los Derechos Humanos ), lodged an official accusation with the public prosecution service, reporting the massacre that had taken place 11 years earlier.

On September 11, 1993, Antoine Izméry attended a mass that had been organised by KOMEVEB to commemorate the 1988 St Jean Bosco massacre, where numerous people had been killed in an attempt on Aristide's life, when he had been a parish priest.