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In 1993, during the bitter confirmation battle over Roberta Achtenberg, a lesbian, as Assistant Secretary for the Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity in the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Pell stated that his daughter was a lesbian, and that he hoped that it would not be a barrier to federal employment for her ; Achtenberg became the first openly gay person to be confirmed by the U. S. Senate.
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* 1993 – Monica Seles is stabbed by Günter Parche, an obsessed fan, during a quarterfinal match of the 1993 Citizen Cup in Hamburg, Germany
Heavy snowfall can occur, such as during the New Year's Eve 1963 snowstorm and the 1993 Storm of the Century.
A phase 1 pharmacokinetic study on ayahuasca ( as Hoasca ) with 15 volunteers was conducted in 1993, during the Hoasca Project.
Morita suffered a stroke in 1993, during a game of tennis.
The park was a popular attraction during the 1970s but was abandoned in 1993 due to financial difficulties.
Clinton, Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat during the Oslo Accords on 13 September 1993.
In the acclaimed 1993 animated film Batman: Mask of the Phantasm ( based on Batman: The Animated Series ), creators Bruce Timm, Paul Dini and Alan Burnett draw aspects from Batman: Year One during the flashback scenes, these include:
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.
On or about June 1, 1993, Hutcheson agreed to police suggestions to place hidden microphones in her home during an encounter with Echols.
Since 1993, the Eritrean People ’ s Liberation Front army has been involved in tree planting ; the annual average rate of deforestation during 1990 – 2000 was 0. 3 percent.
One of the few highlights for Essendon supporters during this time was when Graham Moss won the 1976 Brownlow Medal ; he was the only Bomber to do so in a 40-year span from 1953 – 1993.
Alliance ' 90 / The Greens () is a green political party in Germany, formed from the merger of the German Green Party ( founded in West Germany in 1980 ) and Alliance 90 ( founded during the Revolution of 1989 – 1990 in East Germany ) in 1993.
The outlook for the sugar industry, which had boomed during the 1980s when Honduran producers were allowed to fill Nicaragua's sugar quota to the United States, seemed bleak in 1993.
It went to # 2 in the ratings during the 1993 – 1994 season ; that year, Allen had the # 1 book ( Don't Stand Too Close to a Naked Man ) and movie ( The Santa Clause ).
In 1993 the newly-appointed Secretary of State for Wales John Redwood was embarrassingly videotaped opening and closing his mouth during a communal singing of the national anthem, clearly ignorant of the words but unable to mime convincingly ; the pictures were frequently cited as evidence of his unsuitability for the post.
After an upgrade of their facilities in 1993, the team repeated the experiment in 1994 and detected 75 atoms of < sup > 265 </ sup > Hs and 2 atoms of < sup > 264 </ sup > Hs, during the measurement of a partial excitation function for the 1n neutron evaporation channel.
* On July 25, 1993, following Hezbollah's killing of seven Israeli soldiers in southern Lebanon, Israel launched Operation Accountability ( known in Lebanon as the Seven Day War ), during which the IDF carried out their heaviest artillery and air attacks on targets in southern Lebanon since 1982.
In December 1993, during UNOSOM II, a Saudi Arabian HMMWV departs for the seaport of Mogadishu, Somalia.
* 1993 – 37 participants in an Alevi cultural and literary festival are killed when a mob of demonstrators set fire to their hotel in Sivas during a violent protest.
A section of Kabul during the Civil war in Afghanistan ( 1992 – 1996 ) | war in 1993 after Hekmatyar's bombardment.
These include an all-black strip with blue and gold trimmings between 1993 and 1995, the navy blue shirt with silver horizontal pinstripes worn during the 1999 – 2000 season, and the 2011 – 12 away kit, which had a royal blue body and sleeves with hoops made of small midnight navy blue and black stripes, with black shorts and blue socks.
One notable trait of Doohan's post-crash riding style was the use of a thumb-operated rear brake developed during 1993.
Buckland was writing at the very infancy of the World Wide Web ( WWW ) which was first introduced during 1991 and not widely experienced until 1993.
Abu Daoud believes that if the Israelis knew that Mahmoud Abbas was the financier of the operation, the 1993 Oslo Accords wouldn't have been achieved, during which Mahmoud Abbas was seen in photo ops at the White House.
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After the crash, Hunt ( along with other drivers ) blamed Patrese for starting the accident, and viewers of Hunt's commentaries of Formula One races from 1980 – 1993 on BBC Television were regularly treated to bitter diatribes against Patrese when the Italian appeared on screen.
In the next seven seasons, plagued by injury including to Sampson who would be traded in 1988, they lost in the first round of the playoffs five times, until finally advancing in 1993 past the L. A. Clippers and battle the rival Seattle SuperSonics to the bitter end before falling short in an overtime Game 7.
In 1993, amid further attendance woes and bitter personal controversy, Green obtained permission to move the team to Dallas, Texas.
In the 1990s, the experiment of separating party and state posts, which led to bitter division, was terminated, and in 1993, the post of President was taken by Jiang Zemin, who as CPC General Secretary and Chairman of the Central Military Commission continued to make the office of the President a powerful position.
The club could have had even greater success in this period, as it emerged in 1993 that bitter rivals Marseille had indulged in match fixing and numerous improprieties, a view that Wenger had long held.
Prior to the 1993 – 94 season, Nedvěd became involved in a bitter contract dispute with the Canucks which resulted in a lengthy holdout.
Though he moved to attempt to smooth the country's bitter ethnic divide, his reforms antagonised soldiers in the Tutsi-dominated army, and he was assassinated amidst a failed military coup in October 1993, after only three months in office.
There is a long history of mutual and very bitter animosity between the MST and Veja: already in 1993, the magazine described the MST as " a peasant organization of leninist character " and charged its leaders and activists with faking a homeless condition.
The local economy was devastated with its closure in 1993 / 4 a move that left many former miners bitter as to their fate.
This success was followed by winning the Irish Cup in 1993 after two replays against bitter rivals, Ards.
Towards the late-1980s and 1990s she played strong character roles as the elderly mother — usually a bereaved and bitter widow whose husband died at the hands of ruthless villains — or woman of principles in commercially successful films such as Ram Lakhan ( 1989 ), Anari, Baazigar ( 1993 ), Khalnayak ( 1993 ), Karan Arjun ( 1995 ), Border ( 1997 ), Soldier ( 1998 ) and Ek Rishta-Bond of Love ( 2001 ).
Elected to the State Duma as a member of the Democratic Party of Russia in 1993 where he would first associate with the likes of his then-friend, and later bitter rival, Dmitry Rogozin, he resigned from office before his first four-year term was complete, as he had been named economic security advisor for the Federation Council of Russia and head of the Council's analytical department.
In 1993, Aman was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison for mailing, after a bitter divorce, two threatening postcards to his ex-wife and the allegedly threatening 2-page pamphlet " Legal Slimebags of Wisconsin " to many Wisconsin lawyers and judges.
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The continued research by Russian and British scientists led by 1993 to the final confirmation of the existence of the lake by J. P. Ridley using ERS-1 laser altimetry.
McPeak also acted as Secretary of the Air Force for three weeks in 1993, during an interim before the formal appointment and confirmation of Sheila E. Widnall, as of that date becoming the only person to have ever concurrently served in both capacities.
The Real Anita Hill is a controversial 1993 book written by David Brock that claims to reveal the " true motives " of Anita Hill, who had accused Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment during his 1991 confirmation hearings.
In particular, Hackney's role in the incident was a subject of his 1993 Senate confirmation hearings for the NEH appointment.
During 1993 Tindale received unofficial confirmation of his appointment as an Officer of the Order of Australia ( AO ); this was presented posthumously, to his widow Muriel.
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