1993

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.

1993 was designated as: 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.

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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 also known as the World Trade Center bombing; 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 .
The aftermath of the World Trade Center bombing .