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* 1993 – Sri Lankan politician Lalith Athulathmudali is assassinated while addressing a gathering, approximately 4 weeks ahead of the Provincial Council elections for the Western Province.
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* 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.
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In Sri Lanka's humiliating drubbing at the hands of India in 1993 – 94, where all three Tests were innings defeats, Muralitharan was the sole success, with 12 wickets in the rubber.
Sri Lanka has a multi-party democracy that enjoys surprising stability given the high levels of political violence, especially that which occurred under the UNP regime of 1977 – 1993.
* 1 May 1993 – A Tamil Tigers suicide bomber assassinates President Ranasinghe Premadasa of Sri Lanka.
Sri Venkateswara Central Library and Research Centre ( SVCLRC ), established by TTD in 1993, houses approximately 40, 000 volumes of rare and valuable books, mainly on religion and philosophy.
The LTTE, for its part, scored a major victory when one of their suicide bombers killed Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa in May 1993.
* Sagala Ratnayaka ( 1993 ), Sri Lankan politician and agriculturalist
Kumaratunga was elected as the chief minister of the Western Province of Sri Lanka in 1993 in a landslide election victory.
Ranasinghe Premadasa ( ) ( June 23, 1924 – May 1, 1993 ) was the 3rd President of Sri Lanka from January 2, 1989 to May 1, 1993.
The selectors ended up choosing Western Australian batsman Damien Martyn for the tour, with Ponting selected in the Academy squad captained by Justin Langer, which toured India and Sri Lanka for seven games in August – September 1993.
In 1993 Akram took 2 consecutive 4-wicket hauls against Sri Lanka in Sharjah in which 7 out of 8 wickets were either LBW or bowled.
India appeared in every Cup apart from the 1986 ( India pulled out due to strained cricketing relations with Sri Lanka ), 1993 ( when it was cancelled due to strained political relations between India and Pakistan ).
Ranjan Senerath Madugalle ( born April 22, 1959, Kandy ) is a former Sri Lankan cricketer who became a match referee in 1993.
Tan Sri Musa also led the Malaysian delegation to the UN Commission on Human Rights from 1993 to 1998 and was elected Chairman of the 52nd Session of the Commission in 1995.
Having played for the English U-19 cricket team against the West Indies in 1993, and Sri Lanka and India in 1994, Trescothick was named captain for the two Under-19 series against West Indies and South Africa in 1995.
In 1993, he made four ODI centuries at Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, including three consecutive centuries against Sri Lanka, West Indies and Sri Lanka during 1993 – 94 Wills Trophy and became the second of the four players to do so.
Stewart was groomed for the England captaincy under Graham Gooch, deputising for him in four tests in India and Sri Lanka in 1993, but when Gooch retired from the captaincy later that year Michael Atherton was chosen to succeed him.
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (, ; February 15, 1916 – September 21, 2008 ) was the President of Sri Lanka from May 1, 1993 to November 12, 1994, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from March 3, 1989 to May 7, 1993 and the Governor of North Western province, Sri Lanka from 1988 to 1989.
1993 and Lankan
On 1 May 1993, another Black Tiger assassinated Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa and 23 others during a May Day parade.
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* 1993 – Oliver Tambo, South African politician ( b. 1917 )
William Jefferson " Bill " Clinton ( born William Jefferson Blythe III ; August 19, 1946 ) is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001.
* 1917 – John Connally, American politician ( d. 1993 )
* 1922 – Seán Flanagan, Irish Gaelic footballer and politician ( d. 1993 )
* 1993 – Bona Arsenault, French-Canadian politician and historian ( b. 1903 )
* 1930 – Marcel Léger, Canadian politician ( d. 1993 )
* 1915 – Heinrich Albertz, German theologian and politician ( d. 1993 )
* 1926 – Gérard D. Levesque, Canadian politician ( d. 1993 )
* 1993 – Tomislav Ivčić, Croatian singer, songwriter and politician ( b. 1953 )
* 1993 – Nicholas Ridley, Baron Ridley of Liddesdale, British politician and government minister ( b. 1929 )
* 1939 – Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Georgian politician ( d. 1993 )
* 1993 – Gérard D. Levesque, Canadian politician ( b. 1926 )
* 1903 – Bona Arsenault, French Canadian politician, historian and genealogist ( d. 1993 )
Ruslan Imranovich Khasbulatov () ( born November 22, 1942 ) is a Russian economist and politician of Chechen descent who played a central role in the events leading to the 1993 constitutional crisis in the Russian Federation.
** Jean Lecanuet, French politician ( d. 1993 )
Jeanne Mathilde Sauvé ( née Benoît, April 26, 1922January 26, 1993 ) was a Canadian journalist, politician, and stateswoman who served as Governor General of Canada, the 23rd since Canadian Confederation.
* Venn Young ( 1929 – 1993 ), New Zealand politician
* Ray Martin ( MA 1981 ), politician, former member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, leader of the opposition in the Legislative Assembly from 1985 – 1993
Jiang Zemin ( born 17 August 1926 ) is a retired Chinese politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of China from 1989 to 2002, as President of the People's Republic of China from 1993 to 2003, and as Chairman of the Central Military Commission from 1989 to 2005.
Pedro Juan Rosselló González, M. D., (; born April 5, 1944 in San Juan, Puerto Rico ), is a Puerto Rican physician and politician who served as the sixth Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico from 1993 to 2001.
* Seng Han Thong ( MBA 1993 ), Singaporean politician
* Dinmukhamed Konayev ( 1912 – 1993 ), politician
James Baxter " Jim " Hunt, Jr. ( born May 16, 1937 ) is an American politician who was the 69th and 71st Governor of North Carolina ( 1977 – 1985, and 1993 – 2001 ).
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