Events That Happened in 1993

1993 Events

1993 Alone in the Dark 2 released
Alone in the Dark 2 is the 1993 sequel to 1992's survival horror video game Alone in the Dark created by Infogrames. The game is the second installment in the series. Alone in the Dark...
1993 Chrysler Concorde is First Produced
The Chrysler Concorde is a large four-door, full-size, front wheel drive sedan produced by Chrysler from 1993 to 2004. It replaced the Chrysler Fifth Avenue on the lineup. One of Chrysler...
1993 "Dangerous-The Short Films" Airs
Dangerous - The Short Films is a collection of "short films" by Michael Jackson released initially on VHS, in 1993 released by Buena Vista Home Video, and then on DVD in 2001.
1993 Dimmu Borgir is formed
Dimmu Borgir is a Norwegian black metal band from Oslo, Norway, formed in 1993. "Dimmu Borgir" means "Dark Cities" or "Dark Fortresses" in Icelandic and Old Norse. The name is derived fro...
1993 Ford Mondeo is First Produced
The Ford Mondeo is a large family car sold by the Ford Motor Company in various markets throughout the world. The name "Mondeo" derives from the Latin word mundus, meaning "world". The in...
1993 "Household Saints" Is Released
Household Saints is a 1993 film starring Tracey Ullman, Vincent D'Onofrio, and Lili Taylor. It was based on the novel by Francine Prose and directed by Nancy Savoca. The film explores the...
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Jesse Jackson Jr. Becomes National Field Director of the Rainbow Coalition
In 1993 Jackson became national field director for the Rainbow Coalition, a political action group founded by his father. He quickly restructured and modernized. He computerized many of t...
1993 Joe Satriani Releases "The Beautiful Guitar"
The Beautiful Guitar is a compilation album released by instrumental rock artist Joe Satriani in 1993. It was only released in Europe, and contained various softer, ballad-like songs (As ...
1993 Lauryn Hill Co-Stars in Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
In 1993, she co-starred in Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit as Rita Louise Watson, in which she performed the songs "His Eye Is on the Sparrow" (a duet with Tanya Blount) and "Joyful, Joyf...
1993 Mercedes-Benz C-Class is First Produced
The Mercedes-Benz C-Class is a compact executive car produced by the Mercedes-Benz division of Daimler AG. First introduced in 1993 as a replacement for the 190 range, the C-Class was nic...
1993 Mortal Kombat II is Released
Mortal Kombat II is a 1993 arcade game and the second title in the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. To create the character animations for the game, actors were placed in front of a...
1993 Museum of Tolerance Opens
The Museum of Tolerance (MOT), a multimedia museum in Los Angeles, California, USA, with an associated museum and professional development multi-media training facility in New York City, ...
1993 Nissan Altima is First Produced
The Altima (pronounced /ˈɔːltɨmə/) is a mid-size car (originally a compact car) manufactured by Japanese automaker Nissan, and is arguably a continuation of the Nissan Bluebird line, whic...
1993 Nissan Crew is First Produced
The Nissan Crew is a midsize sedan manufactured by Nissan Motors, sold only in Japan. Its main competitor is the Toyota Comfort. It was introduced in June 1993 and was updated in 1998,...
1993 Nissan Mistral is First Produced
The Nissan Mistral is an 4x4 off-roader manufactured by the Japanese automaker Nissan. It was also made by Nissan's Spanish subsidiary Nissan Motor Ibérica S.A. for the European market, w...
1993 Nissan Quest is First Produced
The Nissan Quest is a minivan produced by Nissan since 1993. There have been three generations of this model. The first generation Quest was a collaboration with Ford, which marketed a re...
1993 Osama Bin Laden training in Sudan
Osama Bin Laden began recruiting terrorists groups to train for one goal, to destroy The United States of America. Initially, each group had their own agenda and fought their battles i...
1993 Porsche 993 is First Produced
The Porsche 993 is the company's internal name for the version of the Porsche 911 model manufactured and sold between late 1993 and early 1998, replacing the 964. Its discontinuation mark...
1993 Stefan Guteklint joins Opeth as bassist
With three members in the band, Åkerfeldt took over vocal duties, and the trio spent the next year writing and rehearsing new material. The group began to rely less on the blast beats and...
1993 Stephen King publishes Dolan's Cadillac
Dolan’s Cadillac is a short story by Stephen King. It is included in Nightmares and Dreamscapes, King's fifth collection of short stories. There were plans to adapt it into a feature film...
1993 Stephen King publishes Umney's Last Case
Umney's Last Case (1993) is a short story written by Stephen King and published as a separate booklet as part of Penguin's 60th anniversary. It also appeared in Nightmares & Dreamscapes -...
1993 The Bouncing Souls release The Argyle e.p.
The Argyle e.p.. is the third EP released by the New Jersey punk band The Bouncing Souls. It was released on Chunksaah Records in 1993. It is notable for containing what is considered by ...
1993 The Bouncing Souls release The Green Ball Crew e.p.
The Green Ball Crew e.p., released in 1993, was the second EP released by the New Jersey Punk rock band The Bouncing Souls. Two of the songs on here, "Kicked" and "Spank", were re-release...
1993 The Chicago White Sox Draft Carey Schueler the First Woman Drafted in MLB
Carey Schueler, daughter of then Chicago White Sox General Manager Ron Schueler, was the first woman ever drafted by a Major League Baseball team when the White Sox picked the 18-year old...
1993 Jan Damn Yankees appear on the cover of Guitar School
1993 Jan 3
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 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (sometimes abbreviated to ST:DS9 or DS9) is a science fiction television program that premiered in 1993 and ran for seven seasons, ending in 1999. Rooted in Gen...
1993 Jan 6 Dizzy Gillespie Dies
On January 6, 1993, Dizzy Gillespie, the last of the primary originators of Be-Bop jazz, died in Englewood, New Jersey. The trumpeter-composer-bandleader had laid the foundation of modern...
1993 Jan 6 "The Movie" - Season 4 Episode 14 of Seinfeld Premiers
"The Movie" is the fifty-fourth episode of the hit sitcom Seinfeld. It was the 14th episode for the 4th season. It aired on January 6, 1993. Jerry schedules two stand-up acts in the sa...
1993 Jan 9 MST3K Ep. 421 - "Monster A-Go Go"
(Short: Circus on Ice) An irradiated astronaut returns to Earth as a giant mutant, and a search for him ensues. The short offers a look at the 40th Annual Carnival of the Toronto Skating ...
1993 Jan 16 MST3K Ep. 422 - "The Day The Earth Froze"
(Short: Here Comes the Circus) Nordic fantasy tale, based loosely on the Kalevala, about a wicked witch's schemes to get, and later regain, a magic mill. The short is a look at the Clyde ...
1993 Jan 20 Bill Clinton is inaugurated as the 42nd president of the United States
"Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America." —Bill Clinton in his first presidential inauguration
1993 Jan 20 Maya Angelou recites On the Pulse of Morning at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton
In 1993, she recited her poem On the Pulse of Morning at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton, becoming the first poet to make an inaugural recitation since Robert Frost at John F. ...
1993 Jan 23 MST3K Ep. 423 - "Bride of the Monster"
(Short: Hired!, Part 1) Mad scientist Dr. Eric Vornoff (Bela Lugosi) lives in a remote swampy area and creates supermen in his lab with the help of his mutant assistant Lobo (Tor Johnson)...
1993 Jan 27 "The Visa" - Season 4 Episode 15 of Seinfeld Premiers
"The Visa" is the fifty-fifth episode of the sitcom Seinfeld. It was the 15th episode of the 4th season. It aired on January 27, 1993. Plot Summary: George meets a female Chinese la...
1993 Jan 30 MST3K Ep. 424 - "Manos: The Hands of Fate"
(Short: Hired!, Part 2) A hapless family on a car trip in rural Texas take refuge at an inn run on behalf of The Master by the satyr Torgo, harboring a deadly cult. Widely considered to b...
1993 Jan 31 Super Bowl XXVII - Cowboys 52, Bills 17
Super Bowl XXVII was an American football game played on January 31, 1993 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion following the 1992...
1993 Feb Radiohead releases single, "Anyone Can Play Guitar"
"Anyone Can Play Guitar" was a single taken from Radiohead's first album Pablo Honey, released just in advance of the album. It was the band's second single, and their first to receive a ...
1993 Feb 1 Accept releases Objection Overruled
Objection Overruled is the 1993 reunion album by German heavy metal band Accept, the first to feature Udo Dirkschneider on lead vocals since 1986's Russian Roulette. It was recorded at Di...
1993 Feb 1 Boston University defeats Boston College, 8-2
1993 Feb 1 Cathedral release The Ethereal Mirror
The Ethereal Mirror is the second full-length album by British doom metal band Cathedral. Released in 1993, this album sees the band experiment a wider scale of sound than on their debut ...
1993 Feb 1 Harvard defeats Northeastern, 7-5
1993 Feb 4 Boston Celtics Hold Larry Bird Night at the Garden
Feb. 4, 1993 In an unprecendented move, the Celtics hold Larry Bird Night at the Garden—with no game scheduled—to celebrate Bird's career and retire his number. Scalpers would get as muc...
1993 Feb 4 "The Shoes" - Season 4 Episode 16 of Seinfeld First Airs
"The Shoes" is the fifty-sixth episode of the hit sitcom Seinfeld. It was the 16th episode for the 4th season. It aired on February 4, 1993. Plot Summary Jerry and George struggle t...
1993 Feb 5 Bill Clinton Signs his First Law the Family and Medical Leave Act
The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA), was passed by the 103rd United States Congress and subsequently signed into law on 5 August 1993 by President Bill Clinton (Pub.L. 103-3; ...
1993 Feb 8 Harvard defeats Boston University, 4-2
The telephone kept ringing yesterday in the office of Harvard hockey coach Ronn Tomassoni and in Chet Stone's equipment emporium at Dillon Field House. Otherwise, it was pretty quiet the ...
1993 Feb 8 Mick Jagger Releases "Wandering Spirit"
Wandering Spirit is the third solo album by Mick Jagger and was released in 1993, Jagger's only solo album release of the 1990s. Jagger aimed to re-introduce himself as a solo artist in a...
1993 Feb 8 Northeastern defeats Boston College, 4-3
1993 Feb 10 Oprah Winfrey interviews Michael Jackson
Jackson gave a 90-minute interview with Oprah Winfrey in February 1993, his first television interview since 1979. He grimaced when speaking of his childhood abuse at the hands of his fat...
1993 Feb 11 President Bill Clinton Nominates Janet Reno for Attorney General
Janet Wood Reno (born July 21, 1938) is the former Attorney General of the United States (1993–2001). She was nominated by President Bill Clinton on February 11, 1993, and confirmed on Ma...
1993 Feb 11 "The Outing" - Season 4 Episode 17 of Seinfeld First Airs
"The Outing" is the fifty-seventh episode of the sitcom Seinfeld. It was the 17th episode for the 4th season. It aired on February 11, 1993. Plot Summary: While at Monk's Cafe, Elai...