In 1993, Williams had a guest appearance on the spin off to The Cosby Show, A Different World as Langston Paige, a grumpy landlord.

Eldest sister Paige Thatcher was played by Monique Lanier during the 1989 – 1990 seasons and by Tracey Needham during the 1990 – 1993 seasons.

* Bruce Paige ( 1985 – 1990, 1993 – 2009 )

Elaine Paige recorded the song for her 1993 album Romance & the Stage and a live performance was featured on her 2004 greatest hits compilation Centre Stage: The Very Best of Elaine Paige.

Shortly after taking office, Clinton signed the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 on February 5, which required large employers to allow employees to take unpaid leave for pregnancy or a serious medical condition.

Clinton signed the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 in August of that year, which passed Congress without a Republican vote.

Clinton signed the Brady Bill into law on November 30, 1993, which imposed a five-day waiting period on handgun purchases.

In 1993, Charles was signed to the Acid Jazz record label.

* 1993 – The North American Free Trade Agreement is signed into law by US President Bill Clinton.

The DFLP, under Hawatmeh, joined the rejectionist groups to form the Alliance of Palestinian Forces ( APF ) to oppose the Declaration of Principles signed in 1993.

Pursuant to the Oslo Accords signed in 1993, the Palestinian Authority became the administrative body that governed Palestinian population centres.

The Israel-PLO Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements ( the DOP, better known as the Oslo accords ), signed in Washington on 13 September 1993, provided for a transitional period not exceeding five years of Palestinian interim self-government in sections of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

GATT was signed in 1948 and lasted until 1993, when it was replaced by the World Trade Organization in 1995.

In 1979 an uneasy peace was established with Egypt, based on the Camp David Accords and in 1993 peace treaties were signed with the PLO and in 1994 with Jordan.

* Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty II ( START II )— signed 1993, never put into force: START II was a bilateral agreement between the US and Russia which attempted to commit each side to deploy no more than 3, 000 to 3, 500 warheads by December 2007 and also included a prohibition against deploying multiple independent reentry vehicles ( MIRVs ) on intercontinental ballistic missiles ( ICBMs )

In 1993, California's Green Day and Bad Religion were both signed to major labels.

Although Peru does not have a bilateral investment treaty with the United States, it has signed an agreement ( 1993 ) with the Overseas Private Investment Corporation ( OPIC ) concerning OPIC-financed loans, guarantees, and investments.

Fox would never broadcast counter-programming again against the Super Bowl ; on December 19, 1993, the network signed an agreement to broadcast NFL ( replacing CBS as the NFC television broadcaster ) starting in 1994.

After a 1993 car crash, the group was noticed by Martin Carr of The Boo Radleys, who got them signed to Creation Records.

Bergkamp signed for Italian club Internazionale in 1993, where he had two disappointing seasons.

Jones signed with Interscope Records in 1993 and released the album The Lead And How To Swing It.

The 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention was signed banning the manufacture and use of chemical weapons.

* Chemical Weapons Convention, signed 1993, entered into force 1997

* START II, signed 1993, ratified 1996 ( United States ) and 2000 ( Russia ), terminated following Russian withdrawal 2002

Nevertheless, after 3 years of fighting and multiple prior " cease-fires ," the government and the RPF signed a " final " cease-fire agreement in August 1993, known as the Arusha Accords, in order to form a power sharing government, a plan which immediately ran into problems.

By 1993, when Burr signed with NBC for another season of Mason films, he was using a wheelchair full-time because of his failing health.

However, when the Liberals under Jean Chrétien came to office in 1993 promising to re-negotiate key parts of the agreement, they continued the deal with only slight changes, and signed the North American Free Trade Agreement which expanded the free trade area to include Mexico.

* 1993: The United Nations Chemical Weapons Convention was signed by 162 member countries, banning the production and stockpiling of many chemical weapons, including sarin.

In 1962 China and India fought a brief war over Aksai Chin and Arunachal Pradesh, but in 1993 and 1996 the two countries signed agreements to respect the Line of Actual Control.

Since the death of Medellín cartel leader Pablo Escobar in a police shootout during December 1993, indiscriminate acts of violence associated with that organization have abated as the " cartels " have broken up into multiple, smaller and often-competing trafficking organizations.

The project became more formalized with the creation of a website in 1993, and followed up by a series of books starting in 2000, authored by Wendy Northcutt.

The first Taiko player in the UK was Joji Hirota, soon followed by the UK's first regularly performing Taiko group, Akatsuki Daiko, set up in 1993. Notable current groups are Mugenkyo, Taiko Meantime and Kagemusha Taiko

In October 1993, the Estonian Ministry of Environment issued a preliminary report summing up part of the degradation it had surveyed thus far.

In 1993, G-FAN picked up where JFFJ left off, and is approaching its 100th regularly published issue.

In the 1990s, organizations began to spring up in non-western countries, such as Progay Philippines, which was founded in 1993 and organized the first Gay Pride march in Asia on June 26, 1994.

After Hungary's GDP declined about 18 % from 1990 to 1993 and grew only 1 %– 1. 5 % up to 1996, strong export performance has propelled GDP growth to 4. 4 % in 1997, with other macroeconomic indicators similarly improving.

* Article 40 ( a )( iv ) of the Print and Publications Act No. 10 of 1993 states that it is prohibited to publish articles that are likely to jeopardize national unity, incite others to commit crimes, stir up hostility, and foment hatred, division and discord between members of society.

In 1993, the duo teamed up again to star in Grumpy Old Men.

In 1993, Polgár defeated former World Champion Boris Spassky ( pictured here in 1984 ) in an exhibition match winning the largest prize money up to that point of her career of $ 110, 000.

* 2000 – A United Nations tribunal sentences five Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years for the 1993 killing of over 100 Muslims in a Bosnian village.

In February 1993, Lysator put up the first web server in Sweden, among the first 10 – 15 in the world.

The upgrade process to digital has also sped up and in 2008 around 83 % of all stations were digital, for example in 1993 only 4 % of all stations were digital.

In 1993 there was major privatization and markets were opened up to foreign powers.

Palin was instrumental in setting up the Michael Palin Centre for Stammering Children in 1993.

* MPEG-1 ( 1993 ): Coding of moving pictures and associated audio for digital storage media at up to about 1. 5 Mbit / s ( ISO / IEC 11172 ).

In 1993 she started Courir pour le plaisir, a 5km run for women in Casablanca that has since become the biggest women ’ s race held in a Muslim country, with up to 30, 000 entrants.

An example of a temporary commission set up to deal with a matter involving the work of several departments of the Roman Curia was the Interdicasterial Commission for the Catechism of the Catholic Church instituted in 1993 to prepare the definitive text in Latin of the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

Set up by Pope John Paul II by a motu proprio of 15 January 1993, it is presided over by the Cardinal Secretary of State and includes also the Secretary and the Undersecretary for Relations with States, and the Secretaries of the Congregations for the Eastern Churches, for the Clergy, and for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, and of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.

* The Townhouse Complex ( built in 1993 ), are 3-level townhouse units accommodating up to 4 students per unit.

In 1993 the Stephen Sondheim Society was set up to promote and provide information about the works of Stephen Sondheim.

Since 1991 – the last year of existence of the USSR – up to 1993 – the last year of rouble zone existence – the rate of inflation was measured in tens, hundreds and even thousands per cent per year.

In addition to the original albums, two compilation albums have been released: Double Hipness ( 2000 ), a collection of early tracks with the 1993 reunion demos ; and Singles ( 2004 ), an extended version of Popera-The Singles Collection which caught up with post-1990 material and included the cover of Bowie's " Boys Keep Swinging ".

Producer John Simon is often cited as a " sixth member " of the Band for producing and playing on Music from Big Pink, co-producing and playing on The Band, and playing on other songs up through the Band's 1993 reunion album Jericho.

In the Bangkok Declaration adopted by Ministers of Asian states meeting in 1993 in the lead up to the World Conference on Human Rights held in the same year, Asian governments reaffirmed their commitment to the principles of the United Nations Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.