* 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.

For example, Universe of Energy was sponsored by Exxon from 1982 to 2004, and The Land was sponsored by Kraft from 1982 to 1993, then Nestlé from 1993 to 2009.

Kraft Foods withdrew its sponsorship on 26 September 1993, with Nestlé taking its place.

* c. 1993 Television commercials for the Kraft General Foods, Inc. product, " Country Time Lemonade Drink Mix " featured a Dundas composition called " I Keep Your Picture " as background music.

It was made by Kraft's Post brand from 1993, when Philip Morris ( the owner of Kraft ) acquired all Nabisco cereal products, until 2008.

Kraft sold its ice cream brands to Unilever in 1993, while retaining the rights to the name for yogurt products.

It was produced under the Nabisco name until the brand in Canada was purchased in 1993 by Post Cereals whose parent company in 1995 became Kraft General Foods which sold Post to Ralcorp in 2008 and is now Post Foods Canada Corp., a unit of Post Holdings which was spun off from Ralcorp in 2012.

Freia was purchased in 1993 by Kraft Foods Nordic, for NOK 3 billion.

In the United States, shredded wheat is most heavily advertised and marketed by Post Cereals, which acquired the product in 1993 through its parent company, Kraft Foods, buying it from its long-time producer Nabisco.

In 1993, Nabisco sold the brand to Kraft General Foods, but it was still under the Nabisco name until 1999, whereupon it was given by the phrase " Nabisco brought to you by Post ".

Kraft withdrew its sponsorship on September 26, 1993, with Nestle taking its place.

* Pavilion sponsor ( s ): Kraft Foods Inc. ( October 1, 1982-September 26, 1993 ), and Nestle ( September 27, 1993-Early 2009 )

A Kraft spokeswoman states that Kraft sold its Frusen Glädjé license to the Unilever corporation in 1993.

* The American Presidency Project: Remarks on the Retirement of General Colin Powell in Arlington, Virginia, September 30, 1993

* 1896 – Jimmy Doolittle, American General ( d. 1993 )

* 1993 – General Motors sues NBC after Dateline NBC allegedly rigs two crashes intended to demonstrate that some GM pickups can easily catch fire if hit in certain places.

After the takeover in November 1993 by General Sani Abacha as the new Nigerian head of state, Ghana and Nigeria continued to consult on economic, political, and security issues affecting the two countries and West Africa as a whole.

Various Governors-General had previously served as governors of an Australian state or colony: Lord Hopetoun ( Victoria 1889 – 95 ); Lord Tennyson ( South Australia 1899 – 1902 ); Lord Gowrie ( South Australia 1928 – 34 ; and New South Wales 1935 – 36 ); Major General Michael Jeffery ( Western Australia 1993 – 2000 ); Quentin Bryce ( Queensland 2003 – 08 ).

In 1993 Honduras had three major labor confederations: the Confederation of Honduran Workers ( Confederación de Trabajadores de Honduras — CTH ), claiming a membership of about 160, 000 workers ; the General Workers Central ( Central General de Trabajadores — CGT ), claiming to represent 120, 000 members ; and the Unitary Confederation of Honduran Workers ( Confederación Unitaria de Trabajadores de Honduras — CUTH ), a new confederation formed in May 1992, with an estimated membership of about 30, 000.

Caribbean governments have been coming under increased pressure from their electorates to devise ways to override previous rulings by the JCPC such as: Earl Pratt and Ivan Morgan v The Attorney General for Jamaica ( 1993 ) Jeffrey Joseph v The Queen for Barbados ( 2002 ), and Charles Matthews v The State of Trinidad & Tobago ( 2004 ), all of which are Privy Council judgments concerning the death penalty in the Caribbean region.

Janet Wood Reno ( born July 21, 1938 ), served as the Attorney General of the United States, from 1993 to 2001.

In 1993, Reno was nominated and confirmed as the first female Attorney General under Bill Clinton, after both of his previous choices, Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood, had problems when it was revealed both had previously employed illegal immigrants as nannies.

At the start of the 1990s, the Royals had been hit with a double-whammy when General Manager John Schuerholz departed in 1990 and team owner Ewing Kauffman died in 1993.

After the PZPR was dissolved, Leszek Miller became a co-founder of the Social Democracy of the Polish Republic ( till March 1993, he was Secretary General, then Deputy Chairman and, from December 1997, the Chairman of that party ).

General Gilles Andriamahazo ruled after Ratsimandrava for four months before being replaced by another military appointee: Vice Admiral Didier Ratsiraka, who ushered in the socialist-Marxist Second Republic that ran under his tenure from 1975 to 1993.

* 1993 – Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn in the next day, becoming the first female Attorney General of the United States.

In 1993, Namibia became a signatory of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) signatory, and the Minister of Trade and Industry represented Namibia at the Marrakech signing of the Uruguay Round Agreement in April 1994.

After the takeover in November 1993 by General Sani Abacha as the new Nigerian head of state, Ghana and Nigeria continued to consult on economic, political, and security issues affecting the two countries and West Africa as a whole.

The office was established by the UN General Assembly on 20 December 1993 in the wake of the 1993 World Conference on Human Rights.

The mandate of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights derives from Articles 1, 13 and 55 of the Charter of the United Nations, the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action and General Assembly resolution 48 / 141 of 20 December 1993, by which the Assembly established the post of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

The High Commissioner is responsible for all the activities of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, as well as for its administration, and carries out the functions specifically assigned to him or her by the General Assembly in its resolution 48 / 141 of 20 December 1993 and subsequent resolutions of policy-making bodies ; advises the Secretary-General on the policies of the United Nations in the area of human rights ; ensures that substantive and administrative support is given to the projects, activities, organs and bodies of the human rights programme ; represents the Secretary-General at meetings of human rights organs and at other human rights events ; and carries out special assignments as decided by the Secretary-General.

From July 1996 to July 1997 he served as Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon ; and from November 1993 to June 1996 General Myers was Commander of U. S. Forces Japan and 5th Air Force at Yokota Air Base, Japan.

** Yemeni parliamentary election, 1993: The General People's Congress wins a plurality of 121 seats.

After General Electric left Horizons in 1993, it closed for a couple of years, then reopened temporarily while neighboring attractions Universe of Energy and World of Motion were renovated.

They had three children, Beatrice Smith ( March 19, 1911 – October 24, 1952 ), Ruth Ellen Patton Totten ( February 28, 1915 – November 25, 1993 ), who wrote The Button Box: A Loving Daughter's Memoir of Mrs. George S. Patton, and George Patton IV ( December 24, 1923 – June 27, 2004 ), who followed in his father's footsteps, attending West Point and eventually rising to the rank of Major General as an armor officer in the United States Army.

In 1993, General Electric sold its aerospace division, including GE Armament Systems along with the design and production tooling for the M61 and GE's other rotary cannon, to Martin Marietta.