* 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.

** 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.

( Coast Guard may excess lighthouse on Falkner Island, in Long Island Sound )" by Nick Ravo, the New York Times ( August 15, 1993 )

* The Long Lost ( 1993 )

In 1993 the Library Journal said that So Long and Thanks for all the Fish was " filled with loopy humor and pretzel logic that makes Adams ' writing so delightful ".

Another compilation album, The Best of Van Morrison Volume Two was released in January 1993, followed by Too Long in Exile in June, another top five chart success.

Morrison selected the tracks, which ranged from the 1993 album Too Long in Exile to the song " Stranded " from the 2005 album Magic Time.

* The Long Summer ( narrator ), 1993

Gene Wolfe's tetralogy The Book of the Long Sun ( 1993 ) deals directly with the challenges facing the inhabitants of the starcrosser Whorl and the continuing challenges after planetfall in The Book of the Short Sun ( 1999 ).

In 1993, Long, along with his brother Earl, was inducted posthumously into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in Winnfield.

Patrol, opposite Nia Long, Tim Thomerson and Brian Keith ; Like Father Like Son ( 1987 ); White Water Summer with Kevin Bacon ( 1987 ), The War of the Roses ( 1989 ); the World War II film Memphis Belle ( 1990 ); Toy Soldiers ( 1991 ); Encino Man ( 1992 ); and the college football biopic Rudy ( 1993 ), about the life-changing struggles and rewards of the titular character, Daniel Ruettiger.

Long Island is an island town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States, which seceded from the city of Portland in 1993.

The island voted to secede from Portland, and on July 1, 1993, the island was declared the Town of Long Island.

Long, Barbarians and Politics at the Court of Arcadius ( Berkeley, 1993 ).

In 1993, Russell Long was among the first thirteen inductees into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in Winnfield, along with his father and his uncle, Earl Long.

) ( 1993 ): How Long Is a Lunar Month ?, Sky & Telescope Nov. 1993, pp. 76 .. 77

The Long Gallery's Chinoiserie decoration was restored in 1993 at the direction of Gerda Hnatyshyn, wife of Governor General Ray Hnatyshyn, putting back much of the furniture and artifacts that had been collected by the Machioness of Willingdon throughout her tour of China in 1926.

* Cobra ( 1993 – 1994 ) ( co-creator, with Craig W. Van Sickle and Steven Long Mitchell )

In 1993, his novel All Summer Long was published by Doubleday, and his columns are collected in several books.

* All Summer Long ( Doubleday, 1993 ) ( novel ) ISBN 0-385-42589-9

His first full year of IndyCar competition came in 1993 and he won five times with his first win coming at Long Beach and the others at Cleveland, Toronto, Road America and Laguna Seca.

In 1993, Long was posthumously inducted into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in his native Winnfield, along with two other Winnfield-area governors, Huey Long and Oscar K. Allen.