From left, clockwise: Ramzi Yousef and other Islamic terrorists detonate a truck bomb in the subterranean garage of the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing 7; the Russian White House is shelled during a constitutional crisis after Russian president Boris Yeltsin imposed a self-coup; Czechoslovakia is peacefully dissolved into the Czech Republic and Slovakia; in the U.S., the ATF besieges a compound belonging to David Koresh and the Branch Davidians in a search for illegal weapons, which ends in the building being set alight and killing most inside; Eritrea overwhelmingly votes to gain independence from Ethiopia; a major snow storm passes over the U.S. and Canada, leading to 318 fatalities; drug lord and narcoterrorist Pablo Escobar is killed by Colombian special forces; the Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
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1993 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar
1993 MCMXCIII
Ab urbe condita
2746
Armenian calendar
1442 ԹՎ ՌՆԽԲ
Assyrian calendar
6743
Baháʼí calendar
149–150
Balinese saka calendar
1914–1915
Bengali calendar
1400
Berber calendar
2943
British Regnal year
41 Eliz. 2 – 42 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar
2537
Burmese calendar
1355
Byzantine calendar
7501–7502
Chinese calendar
壬申年 (Water Monkey) 4690 or 4483 — to — 癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 4691 or 4484
Coptic calendar
1709–1710
Discordian calendar
3159
Ethiopian calendar
1985–1986
Hebrew calendar
5753–5754
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat
2049–2050
- Shaka Samvat
1914–1915
- Kali Yuga
5093–5094
Holocene calendar
11993
Igbo calendar
993–994
Iranian calendar
1371–1372
Islamic calendar
1413–1414
Japanese calendar
Heisei 5 (平成５年)
Javanese calendar
1925–1926
Juche calendar
82
Julian calendar
Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar
4326
Minguo calendar
ROC 82 民國82年
Nanakshahi calendar
525
Thai solar calendar
2536
Tibetan calendar
阳水猴年 (male Water-Monkey) 2119 or 1738 or 966 — to — 阴水鸡年 (female Water-Rooster) 2120 or 1739 or 967
Unix time
725846400 – 757382399
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1993 (MCMXCIII) 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.
Calendar year
1993 was designated as:
International Year for the World's Indigenous People
The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its calendar advanced 24 hours to the Eastern Hemisphere side of the International Date Line, skipping August 21, 1993.[1]
^Associated Press (22 August 1993). "In Marshall Islands, Friday Is Followed by Sunday". New York Times. Archived from the original on 11 October 2017. Retrieved 8 May 2022.
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