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1993 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1993rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 993rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 93rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1990s decade.
August 1 – The Great Flood of 1993 comes to a peak. August 4 – A federal judge sentences LAPD officers Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell to 30 months in prison for violating motorist Rodney King's civil rights. August 10 Ruth Bader Ginsburg is sworn in as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. World Youth Day 1993 in Denver, Colorado.
1993 — Branch Davidians standoff and fire near Waco, Texas, resulting in the deaths of 81 people including their leader, David Koresh. 1993 — The "Storm of the Century" strikes the Eastern Seaboard, with blizzard conditions and severe weather, killing 300 people and causing $6 billion in damage.
Highest-grossing films of 1993 by In-year release [58]; Rank Title Distributor Domestic gross 1. Jurassic Park: Universal: $357,067,947 2. Mrs. Doubtfire: 20th Century Fox
January 8 – The U.S. Postal Service issues an Elvis Presley stamp. The design was voted on in February 1992. [1]January 9 – The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album becomes the first album in history, since the Nielsen SoundScan introduced a computerized sales monitoring system in May 1992, to sell over 1 million copies in one week in the US.
1993 – Carlo Mazzarella, Italian actor and journalist (b. 1919) 1993 – Angelo Piccaluga, Italian footballer (b. 1906) 1993 – Eleanor Sanger, American television producer (b. 1929) [84] 1993 – Josef Steindl, Austrian economist (b. 1912) 1993 – Frank Wells, Australian rules footballer (b. 1909)
1301 – King Andrew III died without any male heirs, ending the Árpád dynasty, which had ruled Hungary since the late 9th century.; 1900 – Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca (poster pictured), based on the play La Tosca by French dramatist Victorien Sardou, premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome.
In the 1993 Peach Bowl (December), played at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia, the Clemson Tigers defeated the Kentucky Wildcats by a score of 14–13. [156] In the 1993 Gator Bowl, played at Gator Bowl Stadium in Jacksonville, Florida, the Alabama Crimson Tide defeated the North Carolina Tar Heels by a score of 24–10. [156]