What Happened In December 1993 In History

Historical Events for December, 1993

• 2nd » Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is shot and killed in Medellín.
• 2nd » Space Shuttle program: STS-61 NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
• 4th » A truce is concluded between the government of Angola and UNITA rebels.
• 5th » The mayor of Vienna, Helmut Zilk, is injured by a letter bomb.
• 7th » The Long Island Rail Road massacre: Passenger Colin Ferguson (mass murderer) e.g Colin Ferguson murders six people and injures 19 others on the Long Island Rail Road known as LIRR in Nassau County, New York.
• 10th » The last shift leaves Wearmouth Colliery in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear named Sunderland. The closure of the 156-year-old pit marks the end of the old County Durham coalfield, which had been in operation since the Middle Ages.
• 11th » Forty-eight people are killed when a block of the Highland Towers collapses near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
• 15th » The Troubles: The Downing Street Declaration is issued by British Prime Minister of the United Kingdom named Prime Minister John Major and Irish Taoiseach Albert Reynolds.
• 30th » Israel and Holy See called Vatican City establish diplomatic relations.

Famous Birthdays on December in 1993

• 1st » Reena Pärnat, Estonian archer
• 2nd » Kostas Stafylidis, Greek footballer
• 5th » Ross Barkley, English footballer
• 6th » Pedro Rafael Amado Mendes, Portuguese footballer
• 8th » Janari Jõesaar, Estonian basketball player
• 8th » Jordan Obita, English footballer
• 8th » AnnaSophia Robb, American actress and singer
• 9th » Laura Smulders, Dutch cyclist
• 10th » Rachel Trachtenburg, American singer and actress (Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players and Supercute!)
• 11th » William Corkery, American actor
• 11th » Tyrone Gilks, Australian motorcycle racer (d. 2013)
• 12th » Zeli Ismail, English footballer
• 16th » Jyoti Amge, Indian dwarf
• 17th » Patricia Kú Flores, Peruvian tennis player
• 22nd » Ali Lohan, American actress and singer
• 22nd » Meghan Trainor, American singer-songwriter
• 25th » Emi Takei, Japanese model, actress, and singer
• 31st » Ryan Blaney, American race car driver

Famous Deaths for December 1993

• 1st » Ray Gillen, American singer-songwriter (Badlands (American band) called Badlands, Black Sabbath, Blue Murder (band) called Blue Murder, and Sun Red Sun) (b. 1959)
• 2nd » Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord (b. 1949)
• 3rd » Lewis Thomas, American physician, etymologist, and academic (b. 1913)
• 4th » Margaret Landon, American missionary and author (b. 1903)
• 4th » Frank Zappa, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (The Mothers of Invention) (b. 1940)
• 5th » Doug Hopkins, American guitarist and songwriter (Gin Blossoms) (b. 1961)
• 6th » Don Ameche, American actor and singer (b. 1908)
• 7th » Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Ivoirian politician, 1st List of heads of state of Ivory Coast e.g President of Ivory Coast (b. 1905)
• 7th » Wolfgang Paul, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics called Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
• 8th » Yevgeny Minayev, Russian weightlifter (b. 1933)
• 9th » Danny Blanchflower, Irish footballer and manager (b. 1926)
• 10th » Alice Tully, American soprano (b. 1902)
• 11th » Elvira Popescu, Romanian-French actress and director (b. 1894)
• 12th » József Antall, Hungarian historian and politician, 35th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1932)
• 12th » Layne Britton, American makeup artist and actor (b. 1907)
• 13th » Vanessa Duriès, French author (b. 1972)
• 14th » Jeff Alm, American football player (b. 1968)
• 14th » Myrna Loy, American actress and singer (b. 1905)
• 15th » William Dale Phillips, American chemist and engineer (b. 1925)
• 16th » Charizma, American rapper (b. 1973)
• 16th » Moses Gunn, American actor (b. 1929)
• 16th » Kakuei Tanaka, Japanese politician, 64th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1918)
• 18th » Sam Wanamaker, American-English actor, director, and producer (b. 1919)
• 19th » Michael Clarke (musician) e.g Michael Clarke, American drummer (The Byrds, The Flying Burrito Brothers, and Firefall) (b. 1946)
• 20th » W. Edwards Deming, American statistician, academic, and author (b. 1900)
• 24th » Norman Vincent Peale, American minister and author (b. 1898)
• 25th » Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist (b. 1899)
• 27th » Feliks Kibbermann, Estonian chess player and philologist (b. 1902)
• 27th » Evald Mikson, Estonian footballer (b. 1911)
• 27th » André Pilette, Belgian race car driver (b. 1918)
• 28th » Howard Caine, American actor (b. 1926)
• 28th » William L. Shirer, American journalist and historian (b. 1904)
• 29th » Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Armenian actor (b. 1930)
• 30th » Mack David, American songwriter (b. 1912)
• 30th » Irving Paul Lazar, American talent agent (b. 1907)
• 30th » Giuseppe Occhialini, Italian-French physicist and academic (b. 1907)
• 31st » Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Georgian anthropologist and politician, 1st President of Georgia (b. 1939)
• 31st » Brandon Teena, American murder victim (b. 1972)

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