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December 9, 1993: Astronauts Story Musgrave (on robot arm) and Jeffrey A. Hoffman repairing the Hubble Space Telescope.

Следующие события произошли в декабре 1993 года . Более полный список известных смертей в этом месяце см. в разделе « Смерти в декабре 1993 года» .

1 декабря 1993 г. (среда)

• В казарме на военно-морской десантной базе Коронадо , Калифорния, ВМС США прапорщик Джордж П. Смит застрелил лейтенанта-лейтенанта Элтона Гриззарда, бывшего военно-морских гардемаринов защитника , и прапорщика Керрин О'Нил, а затем застрелился сам.
• В пустыне недалеко от границы между Йеменом и Саудовской Аравией йеменские похитители освободили американского дипломата Хейнса Махони после его похищения 25 ноября. Похитители Махони вели переговоры с правительством Йемена о его освобождении, не выдвигая никаких требований к правительству США .
• Во Всемирный день борьбы со СПИДом Всемирная организация здравоохранения объявила, что 14 миллионов человек во всем мире инфицированы ВИЧ – вирусом, вызывающим СПИД.
• A 19-year-old member of AIDS activist organization ACT-UP, who identified himself as "Luke Sissyfag", heckled U.S. President Bill Clinton during his World AIDS Day speech at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C., shouting, "You are doing nothing. You are sitting on your hands."
• United States Secretary of the Navy John Howard Dalton announced that the Navy would assign hundreds of female sailors to aircraft carriers in 1994.
• STS-61: NASA postponed the scheduled launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour until the following day due to weather.
• Northwest Airlink Flight 5719 crashed in fog and drizzle during final approach to Chisholm-Hibbing Airport in Hibbing, Minnesota, killing all 18 people aboard.
• Born: Reena Pärnat, Estonian Olympic archer; in Pärnu, Estonia
• Died:
  • Lynette Davies, 45, Welsh actress, suicide by drowning (approximate date)
  • Ray Gillen, American rock singer-songwriter, 32 or 34, AIDS-related illness
  • Sir Ivor Hele, CBE, 81, Australian war artist and portraitist

December 2, 1993 (Thursday)

December 2, 1993: Launch of STS-61.

• NASA launched the Space Shuttle Endeavour on the STS-61 mission, the first Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission, at 4:26 a.m. Eastern Standard Time.
• French car maker Renault and Swedish car maker Volvo canceled a planned merger that would have created the world's sixth-largest automotive manufacturer after executives at Volvo forced a withdrawal over concerns about the direction of the future merged company.
• The Troubles in Keady: 23-year-old British Army soldier Paul Garrett was shot and killed by an Irish Republican Army sniper during an Army foot patrol in Keady, County Armagh, Northern Ireland.
• Detective James Edward O'Brien of the Oxnard, California Police Department was shot and killed while pursuing the suspect in a mass shooting at an unemployment office.
• Born:
  • Kevin Fischnaller, Italian Olympic luger; in Brixen, South Tyrol, Italy
  • Haruka Ishida, Japanese actress and television personality; in Saitama Prefecture, Japan
  • Jak Roberto, Filipino actor, model and singer; in Nagcarlan, Laguna, Philippines
  • Kostas Stafylidis, Greek footballer; in Thessaloniki, Greece
• Died:
  • Harry Julius Emeléus CBE, FRS, 90, British inorganic chemist
  • Pablo Escobar, 44, Colombian drug lord, shot by Colombian National Police in Medellín, Colombia

December 3, 1993 (Friday)

The Hubble Space Telescope as seen from the approaching Endeavour.

• STS-61: The crew of Space Shuttle Endeavour sighted the Hubble Space Telescope and began the process of orbital rendezvous.
• Law enforcement authorities seized 315 kilograms (694 lb) of heroin in Pae, Thailand.
• The 1993 Davis Cup men's tennis final between Germany and Australia began at the Messe Düsseldorf Exhibition Hall in Düsseldorf, Germany.
• In Hartberg and Vienna, Austria, Roman Catholic priest August Janisch and journalist Silvana Meixner were injured when they opened letter bombs addressed to them. These would prove to be the first of a series of letter bombings targeted at advocates for ethnic minorities and immigrants in Austria.
• The 1993 National Finals Rodeo began at the Thomas and Mack Arena in Paradise, Nevada. It would conclude on December 12.
• Born:
  • Marques Brownlee, American YouTuber and professional ultimate frisbee player; in Maplewood, New Jersey
  • Clare Cryan, Irish diver
• Died:
  • Witold Majchrzycki, 84, Polish Olympic boxer
  • Lea Mek, 18, member of the Asian Boyz street gang, murdered in gang shooting
  • Lewis Thomas, 80, American physician, author and educator, Waldenstrom's disease

December 4, 1993 (Saturday)

• STS-61: Swiss astronaut Claude Nicollier captured the Hubble Space Telescope with Space Shuttle Endeavour's remote manipulator arm and berthed it in the shuttle's payload bay at 4:26 a.m. EST. At 10:46 p.m. EST, American astronauts Story Musgrave and Jeffrey A. Hoffman began the mission's first extravehicular activity, which would be the second-longest spacewalk up to that point in NASA's history.
• In Austria, a letter bomb sent to Helmut Schüller, president of the humanitarian organization Caritas Internationalis, was detected before being opened.
• On or about this date, police officer L.C. Underwood kidnapped and murdered Victor Gunnarsson, a former suspect in the 1986 assassination of Olof Palme, in North Carolina, perceiving Gunnarsson as a romantic rival for his former fiancée, Kay Weden. Three days later Weden's mother, Catherine Miller, would also be murdered; Underwood would be accused of that killing as well, but would never be tried for it.
• In the 1993 SEC Championship Game, played at Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama, the Florida Gators defeated the Alabama Crimson Tide by a score of 28–13.
• American serial killer Richard Allen Davis provided investigators with information that allowed them to find the body of 12-year-old Polly Klaas, whom Davis had murdered on October 1.
• Born: Taco van der Hoorn, Dutch cyclist; in Rotterdam, Netherlands
• Died:
  • Margaret Landon, 90, American Presbyterian missionary and writer
  • Hugh Moore, QPM, 64, City of London Police commander, heart failure two weeks after violent struggle with suspect
  • Roy Vernon, 56, Welsh international footballer, cancer
  • Frank Zappa, 52, American guitarist and composer, prostate cancer

December 5, 1993 (Sunday)

• STS-61: American astronauts Kathryn C. Thornton and Thomas Akers conducted the mission's second extravehicular activity overnight (EST).
• The 1993 World Women's Handball Championship concluded in Norway; Germany defeated Denmark in the final.
• The 1993 Davis Cup final concluded in Düsseldorf, Germany, with Germany defeating Australia 4:1.
• Omar Bongo was re-elected as President of Gabon in the country's first multiparty elections.
• Helmut Zilk, the Mayor of Vienna, was severely injured and lost two fingers when he opened a letter bomb at his home. On the same day, two other letter bombs in Austria, one sent to the leader of a community of Slovenes and the other to Austrian Green Party politician Madeleine Petrovic, were discovered and neutralized before being opened. The series of letter bombings would prove to have been perpetrated by far-right extremist Franz Fuchs.
• The Troubles: Catholic civilians John Todd, 31, and Brian Duffy, 15, were shot and killed by the Ulster Freedom Fighters while sitting in a car outside a taxi depot in Ligoniel, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
• Rafael Caldera was elected President of Venezuela for the second time, succeeding interim president Ramón José Velásquez.
• Born: Ross Barkley, English footballer; in Liverpool, England
• Died:
  • Doug Hopkins, 32, American musician and songwriter, suicide by gunshot
  • Rita Macedo, 68, Mexican actress, suicide by gunshot

December 6, 1993 (Monday)

December 6, 1993: NASA astronaut Kathryn C. Thornton jettisons a damaged HST solar panel into space during STS-61 EVA #2.

• STS-61: Astronauts Musgrave and Hoffman began the mission's third extravehicular activity at 10:34 p.m. EST.
• Between 10:00 p.m. on December 6 and 1:00 a.m. on December 7, 46-year-old Lynn Marie Stansfield and 43-year-old Dale Gene Wolf were shot to death in a house in Penn Township, Perry County, Pennsylvania. Firefighters discovered their bodies after responding to a fire at the house; it is believed the fire was set to destroy evidence. As of 2019 the murders would remain unsolved.
• Born:
  • Jasprit Bumrah, Indian cricketer; in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
  • Pedro Mendes, Portuguese footballer; in Barreiro, Portugal
  • Tautau Moga, Samoa international rugby league footballer; in Ipswich, Queensland, Australia
  • Miljan Rovcanin, Serbian professional boxer; in Bar, Republic of Montenegro, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
• Died:
  • Don Ameche, 85, American actor, prostate cancer
  • Alexandre Trauner, 87, Hungarian set designer

December 7, 1993 (Tuesday)

• STS-61: Astronauts Thornton and Akers began the mission's fourth extravehicular activity at 10:13 p.m. EST. They replaced Hubble's High Speed Photometer (HSP) with the Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement (COSTAR), the device that would correct for the spherical aberration of Hubble's primary mirror.
• The Transitional Executive Committee, a government-in-waiting including members of the African National Congress and the National Party, was established in South Africa.
• The Troubles: 38-year-old Catholic civilian Robert McClay was shot and killed by the Ulster Freedom Fighters at his home in Ballyhackamore, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
• In Garden City, New York, six people were murdered and 19 injured in the 1993 Long Island Rail Road shooting, a racially motivated mass shooting perpetrated by Colin Ferguson, a black Jamaican immigrant.
• Richard Allen Davis was charged with the kidnapping and murder of Polly Klaas.
• Born:
  • Jasmine V (born Jasmine Marie Villegas), American singer; in San Jose, California
  • Rahama Sadau, Nigerian actress and filmmaker; in Kaduna, Nigeria
  • Kiyou Shimizu, Japanese Olympic karateka; in Osaka, Japan
• Died:
  • Nicky Crane, 35, English neo-Nazi activist, AIDS-related bronchopneumonia
  • Abidin Dino, 80, Turkish artist and painter
  • Félix Houphouët-Boigny, 88, 1st President of Ivory Coast, the oldest African head of state, prostate cancer
  • Wolfgang Paul, 80, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

December 8, 1993 (Wednesday)

• STS-61: Astronauts Musgrave and Hoffman began the mission's fifth and final extravehicular activity at 10:30 p.m. EST. The EVA would conclude at 5:51 a.m. EST on December 9.
• In Schleswig, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, neo-Nazis Michael Peters and Lars Christiansen were convicted of the murders of the three Turkish people killed in the 1992 Mölln arson attack. For the firebombing that killed 51-year-old Bahide Arslan, 10-year-old Yeliz Arslan and 14-year-old Ayse Yilmaz, Peters was sentenced to life in prison and Christiansen to 10 years. These were the maximum possible sentences, since Christiansen was 19 at the time of the murders and was tried as a juvenile.
• Using eight pens, U.S. President Bill Clinton signed the North American Free Trade Agreement into law.
• Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital, both in Boston, Massachusetts, approved a merger to cut costs and gain greater bargaining power with insurance companies. Each hospital would retain its own name and programs.
• Born:
  • Janari Jõesaar, Estonian professional basketball player
  • Cara Mund, Miss America 2018; in Bismarck, North Dakota
  • Jordan Obita, English footballer; in Oxford, England
  • AnnaSophia Robb, American actress, singer and model; in Denver, Colorado
  • Óscar Salas, Honduran professional and Olympic footballer; in Olanchito, Honduras
• Died: Yevgeny Minayev, 60, Soviet Olympic champion weightlifter, starvation and hypothermia

December 9, 1993 (Thursday)

December 9, 1993: NASA astronaut Story Musgrave during STS-61 EVA #5.

• Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Sunset Boulevard received its American premiere in Los Angeles.
• Born:
  • Mark McMorris, Canadian professional and Olympic snowboarder; in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
  • Laura Smulders, Dutch Olympic racing cyclist; in Nijmegen, Netherlands
  • Olga Zubova, Russian weightlifter
• Died: Danny Blanchflower, 67, Northern Ireland international footballer and football manager, bronchopneumonia

December 10, 1993 (Friday)

• STS-61: The crew of Space Shuttle Endeavour released the repaired Hubble Space Telescope back into orbit.
• 62-year-old Libyan human rights activist Mansour Rashid El-Kikhia, an opponent of Muammar Gaddafi, disappeared in Cairo, Egypt. His body would be found in October 2012 in a refrigerator in Tripoli, Libya.
• A knife-wielding man hijacked Air France Flight 2306 between Paris and Nice shortly before arriving at Nice. Despite demands to be flown to Tripoli, the aircraft landed as intended at Nice Côte d'Azur Airport, where all 123 passengers and six crew members onboard were released unharmed.
• Scottish soldiers Paul Callaghan and David Reid of the British Army's 5th Airborne Brigade were last seen alive this morning as they began an off-duty climbing weekend in Glen Coe, during which they would be swept away by an avalanche on Stob Coire nan Beith. After an extensive and dangerous search and rescue effort, their bodies would be found at the bottom of Summit Gully on December 14.
• The last shift left Monkwearmouth Colliery in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England. The closure of the 158-year-old pit marked the end of the old County Durham coalfield, which had been in operation since the Middle Ages.
• Nelson Mandela and F. W. de Klerk were awarded the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize at Oslo City Hall in Oslo, Norway.
• id Software's Doom was released, becoming a landmark title in first-person shooter video games.
• Died:
  • Fernand Mithouard, 84, French professional cyclist
  • Alice Tully, 91, American opera and recital singer and arts patron
  • Alan E. Zimmer, M.D., 64, American neuroradiologist, stroke

December 11, 1993 (Saturday)

• One of the three blocks of the Highland Towers near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia collapsed, killing 48.
• Henri Konan Bédié succeeded Félix Houphouët-Boigny, who died on December 7, as President of Ivory Coast.
• 1993 Chilean general election: Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle was elected President of Chile with 58% of the vote.
• In the Atlantic Ocean, the 30-foot (9.1 m) boat on which 63-year-old Herbert Clarity and 47-year-old Anthony Suraleigh were sailing from New York to Bermuda capsized in a sudden storm with 35-foot (11 m) waves and 70-mile-per-hour (110 km/h) winds. The two men rode out the storm in a life raft for 11 hours before a Japanese freighter headed for Ireland rescued them. Clarity and Suraleigh would fly back to New York from Ireland on December 23.
• In Howard County, Maryland, 23-year-old David Mark Kohl was crushed to death by his brother's house when it slipped and fell on him while being raised on jacks to install a foundation underneath.
• Born:
  • Yalitza Aparicio, Mexican actress and educator; in Tlaxiaco, Mexico
  • Tyrone Gilks, Australian motorcycle personality; in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia (d. 2013 in training crash)
  • Mikoy Morales (born Vincent Marco Chu Morales), Filipino actor, model and singer; in Roxas, Capiz, Philippines
• Died:
  • Bill Mumm OBE JP, 71, New Zealand rugby union player and politician
  • Elvira Popescu, 99, Romanian-French actress

December 12, 1993 (Sunday)

• In the 1993 Russian constitutional referendum, 58.4% of voters approved of the new Constitution of Russia.
• The Troubles: Protestants Andrew Beacom, 46, and Ernest Smith, 49, both members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, were shot and killed by the Irish Republican Army while sitting in an RUC civilian-type car in Fivemiletown, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.
• In Palm Beach County, Florida, a 450-pound (200 kg) lion named Helmut attacked and severely injured an employee at Lion Country Safari.
• Born: Zeli Ismail, English footballer; in Kukës, Albania
• Died:
  • József Antall, 61, 53rd Prime Minister of Hungary, non-Hodgkin lymphoma
  • Ned Barry, 88, New Zealand rugby union player and police officer

December 13, 1993 (Monday)

• 60 people died and 8 were injured in a fire at a textile factory in Fuzhou, China.

December 13, 1993: STS-61 crewmembers after landing.

• Space Shuttle Endeavour landed at Kennedy Space Center at 12:26 a.m. EST, completing the successful STS-61 mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
• The Congress of the Philippines enacted Republic Act No. 7659, reinstating capital punishment for selected crimes, which had been banned in the 1987 Constitution of the Philippines.
• The Parliament of Kazakhstan approved the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and agreed to dismantle the more than 100 missiles left on its territory by the fall of the USSR.
• French erotic novelists Vanessa Duriès and Jean-Pierre Imbrohoris (known as Joy Laurey), Imbrohoris' wife (writer Nathalie Perreau) and Imbrohoris' son were killed in a traffic collision in Montélimar, France.
• The Troubles: 26-year-old Protestant civilian Noel Cardwell was found dead, shot by the Ulster Freedom Fighters, in an unoccupied flat in Shankill, Belfast, Northern Ireland. He was rumored to have been an informer.
• Former Prime Minister of Canada Kim Campbell resigned as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party and was succeeded as leader by Jean Charest.
• Born: Shaun Edwards, Australian rules footballer
• Died:
  • Larry Cameron, 41, National Football League and Canadian Football League player and professional wrestler; heart attack in ring during match with Tony St. Clair in Bremen, Germany
  • Vanessa Duriès (a.k.a. Katia Lamara), 20–21, French novelist, traffic collision
  • Joy Laurey (pen name of Jean-Pierre Imbrohoris), 50, French novelist, traffic collision

December 14, 1993 (Tuesday)

• Algerian Civil War: Members of the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria massacred 12 Christian employees of the Croatian construction company Hidroelektra in a village southwest of Algiers.
• 19-year-old Nathan Dunlap, a former employee of an Aurora, Colorado Chuck E. Cheese, shot and killed four people at the restaurant and wounded a fifth. Dunlap would be sentenced to death in 1996. His sentence would be commuted to life in prison without the possibility of parole when Colorado abolished the death penalty in 2020.
• Born: Antonio Giovinazzi, Italian racing driver; in Martina Franca, Italy
• Died:
  • Jeff Alm, 25, National Football League defensive tackle, suicide by gunshot after causing his best friend's death in car crash
  • Shirley J. Dreiss, 44, American hydrologist and hydrogeologist, traffic collision
  • Francis Jones CVO, TD, DL, FSA, MA, KStJ, 85, Welsh historian and officer of arms
  • Myrna Loy, 88, American actress

December 15, 1993 (Wednesday)

• A Lockheed C-130 Hercules military plane carrying relief supplies for victims of Typhoon Lola crashed into a hill and exploded in Libmanan, Camarines Sur, Philippines. Out of about 30 people on board, twenty-four bodies were retrieved from the crash site.
• First Nagorno-Karabakh War: The Azerbaijani Armed Forces launched Operation Kalbajar, a military offensive against the Armed Forces of Armenia and the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, which would continue until February 1994.
• The Troubles: Irish Taoiseach Albert Reynolds and British Prime Minister John Major issued their joint Downing Street Declaration on the future of Northern Ireland.
• The Uruguay Round of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) talks reached a successful conclusion after seven years.
• Born:
  • Yuko Araki, Japanese actress and model; in Tokyo, Japan
  • Alina Eremia, Romanian singer; in Buftea, Ilfov County, Romania
• Died:
  • Raúl Esnal, 37, Uruguayan footballer, murdered in El Salvador; the case remains unsolved
  • Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau GCMG KCVO KBE DSO ED, 75, 1st President of Fiji, leukemia
  • William Dale Phillips, 68, American chemist

December 16, 1993 (Thursday)

• In Chelsea, Michigan, science teacher Stephen Leith returned to Chelsea High School with a handgun after a meeting to discuss a grievance he had filed over a reprimand for inappropriate remarks about a female student. He shot and killed Superintendent Joseph Piasecki and wounded Principal Ron Mead and teacher Phil Jones. Leith would subsequently be convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
• Born:
  • Jyoti Amge, Indian actress, world's shortest living woman; in Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
  • Thiago Braz, Brazilian Olympic champion pole vaulter; in Marília, São Paulo, Brazil
  • Lola Créton, French actress; in Paris, France
  • Stephan James, Canadian actor; in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Died:
  • Charizma (born Charles Edward Hicks Jr.), 20, American MC, murdered
  • Moses Gunn, 64, American actor, complications of asthma
  • Charles Moore, 68, American architect, heart attack
  • Kakuei Tanaka, 75, Japanese politician, 40th Prime Minister of Japan, pneumonia

December 17, 1993 (Friday)

• Brazil's Supreme Federal Court ruled that former President Fernando Collor de Mello could not hold elected office again until 2000 due to political corruption.
• In the State Dining Room of the White House, U.S. President Bill Clinton read A Visit from St. Nicholas to children from six elementary schools in the Washington, D.C., area.
• In the 1993 Las Vegas Bowl, played at the Sam Boyd Silver Bowl in Whitney, Nevada, the Utah State Aggies defeated the Ball State Cardinals by a score of 42–33.
• Born:
  • Kiersey Clemons, American actress and singer; in Los Angeles, California
  • Patricia Kú Flores, Peruvian tennis player; in Lima, Peru
  • Cailin Russo, American model and musician; in San Diego, California
• Died:
  • Bobby Davidson, 65, Scottish football referee
  • Janet Margolin, 50, American actress, ovarian cancer

December 18, 1993 (Saturday)

• In the 1993 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game, played at Marshall University Stadium in Huntington, West Virginia, the Youngstown State Penguins defeated the Marshall Thundering Herd by a score of 17–5.
• The MGM Grand Las Vegas hotel and casino opened in Paradise, Nevada.
• Born:
  • Anton McKee, Icelandic Olympic swimmer; in Reykjavík, Iceland
  • Byron Buxton, American Major League Baseball center fielder; in Baxley, Georgia
  • Kerri Gowler, New Zealand Olympic champion rower; in Raetihi, Manawatū-Whanganui, New Zealand
  • Thomas Lam, Finnish-Dutch footballer; in Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Ana Porgras, Romanian artistic gymnast; in Galați, Romania
  • Riria (born Riria Baba), Japanese actress; in Tokyo, Japan
  • Souliya Syphasay, Laotian footballer; in Vientiane, Laos
• Died:
  • Georges Bégué, 82, French engineer and Special Operations Executive agent
  • Helm Glöckler, 84, German amateur racing driver
  • Sam Wanamaker, CBE (born Samuel Wattenmacker), 74, American film director and actor, prostate cancer

December 19, 1993 (Sunday)

• Lansana Conté was confirmed in office in the 1993 Guinean presidential election with 51.71% of the vote.
• Born:
  • Ali Adnan Kadhim, Iraqi professional and Olympic footballer; in Baghdad, Iraq
  • Alkaline (born Earlan Bartley), Jamaican dancehall and reggae musician; in Kingston, Jamaica
  • Leonardo Bittencourt, German footballer; in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
  • Hermione Corfield, English actress; in London, England
  • Isiah Koech, Kenyan Olympic long-distance runner; in Keringet, Kenya
  • José Leclerc, Dominican Major League Baseball relief pitcher; in Esperanza, Dominican Republic
  • Christopher Rühr, German Olympic field hockey player; in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
  • Stephanie Venier, Austrian Olympic alpine skier; in Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria
• Died: Michael Clarke, 47, American musician (The Byrds), liver failure

December 20, 1993 (Monday)

• The United Nations General Assembly voted to appoint a U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights.
• Ten months after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, The New York Times reported that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey was searching for a new advertising agency to encourage greater use of the World Trade Center complex. Former Boston Globe editor Matthew V. Storin would later suggest that this indicated "a return to complacency" after the bombing.
• 17 teenagers died in a fire at the Kheyvis nightclub in Olivos, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• The Hubble Space Telescope took its first corrected images.
• Born:
  • Ali Abdi, Tunisian footballer; in Sfax, Tunisia
  • Andrea Belotti, Italian footballer; in Calcinate, Italy
  • Yana Egorian, Russian Olympic champion sabre fencer; in Yerevan, Armenia
  • Robeisy Ramírez, Cuban Olympic champion and professional boxer; in Cienfuegos, Cuba
• Died:
  • Gussie Nell Davis, 87, American educator and founder of the Kilgore College Rangerettes
  • W. Edwards Deming, 93, American engineer, professor, author, lecturer, and management consultant; cancer
  • Nazife Güran, 72, Turkish composer
  • Iichirō Hatoyama, 75, Japanese politician and diplomat

December 21, 1993 (Tuesday)

• The Hungarian Parliament elected Péter Boross Prime Minister of Hungary following the death of József Antall on December 12.
• The United States Department of Defense issued the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy under Directive 1304.26.
• Born:
  • Cody Ceci, Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman; in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
  • Alex Iafallo, American professional ice hockey forward; in Eden, New York
  • Uvaldo Luna, Mexican footballer; in Channelview, Greater Houston, Texas
  • Malcolm Subban, Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender; in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Died:
  • Guy des Cars, 82, French novelist
  • Sir Philip Christison, GBE, CB, DSO, MC & Bar, 100, British Army officer
  • Zack Mosley, 87, American comics artist
  • Pekka Niemi, 84, Finnish Olympic cross-country skier
  • Margarita Nikolaeva, 58, Soviet Olympic champion gymnast

December 22, 1993 (Wednesday)

• Croat–Bosniak War: Members of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina perpetrated the Križančevo selo massacre, killing at least 12 Croatian Defence Council prisoners of war and two female Croatian non-combatants.
• 1994 Texas gubernatorial election: The Republican Party of Texas rejected Dallas preacher James Bridges' application to run in the Republican gubernatorial primary because the check for the $3,000 filing fee bounced. On the same day, Bridges' church burned down.
• In the Denver, Colorado area, eight shopping malls closed their Santa displays after receiving death threats directed at Santa Claus by mail and fax machine. By the following day, Santa would be greeting children at over a dozen police and fire stations in the area.
• Born:
  • Fazly Mazlan (born Muhammad Fazly bin Mazlan), Malaysian footballer; in Muar District, Johor, Malaysia
  • Raphaël Guerreiro, Portuguese footballer; in Le Blanc-Mesnil, France
  • David Klemmer, Australian rugby league footballer; in Sydney, Australia
  • Aliana Lohan, American actress, model, and singer; in Cold Spring Harbor, New York
  • Gabriel Medina (born Gabriel Medina Pinto Ferreira), Brazilian professional surfer; in São Sebastião, São Paulo, Brazil
  • Hedvig Rasmussen, Danish Olympic rower; in Frederiksberg, Denmark
  • Meghan Trainor, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer; in Nantucket, Massachusetts
• Died:
  • Sylvia Bataille (born Sylvia Maklès), 85, French actress, cardiac arrest
  • Marion Burns, 86, American actress
  • Don DeFore, 80, American actor, cardiac arrest
  • Alexander Mackendrick, 81, British-American film director, pneumonia
  • Salah Zulfikar, 67, Egyptian actor and film producer, heart attack

December 23, 1993 (Thursday)

• Pope John Paul II declared Émilie Gamelin, the founder of the Sisters of Providence of Montreal, to be Venerable (the second of the four stages of Catholic sainthood). He would beatify her on October 7, 2001.
• Whitewater controversy: U.S. President Bill Clinton instructed his attorney, David E. Kendall, to turn over to the United States Department of Justice all records related to Clinton's investment in Whitewater Development Corporation, including the documents White House Counsel Bernard Nussbaum removed from Vince Foster's office after Foster's July 20 suicide.
• Debbie Tucker Loveless and John Harvey Miller, who had both been serving life prison sentences, were released on bond after their convictions for the alleged murder of Loveless' 4-year-old daughter in January 1989 were overturned the previous week. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals overturned the convictions due to the couple having ineffective counsel and the failure of the prosecution to turn over medical records to the defense. Loveless and Miller maintained that the child died as a result of a dog attack and that their first attorney ignored evidence supporting their explanation. Prosecutors would dismiss the charges against Loveless and Miller on May 2, 1994.
• National Football League quarterback Troy Aikman agreed to an eight-year, $50 million contract with the Dallas Cowboys, making him the richest player in NFL history up to that time.
• Born:
  • Claudio Baeza, Chilean footballer; in Los Ángeles, Chile
  • Felix Großschartner, Austrian cyclist; in Wels, Austria
  • Ruriko Kojima, Japanese gravure idol and sportscaster; in Ichihara, Chiba, Japan
  • Riho Otake, Japanese volleyball player; in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
  • Emmanuel Stockbroekx, Belgian Olympic field hockey player; in Brasschaat, Belgium
  • Nicolae Tanovițchii, Moldovan professional racing cyclist; in Chișinău, Moldova
  • Jasmine Todd, American track and field athlete; in San Diego, California
  • Delano Williams, British Olympic sprinter; in Grand Turk Island, Turks and Caicos Islands
• Died:
  • Gertrude Blom, 92, Swiss journalist, social anthropologist and documentary photographer
  • James Ellison (born James Ellison Smith), 83, American actor, fall
  • Jean Maréchal, 83, French racing cyclist
  • Marcello Neri, 91, Italian Olympic cyclist

December 24, 1993 (Friday)

• Two crocodiles attacked and killed 48-year-old Cassey Bond while he was swimming in the Jardine River on the Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland, Australia.
• Five shoppers were killed and 48 others wounded in a grenade explosion at a market in Misamis Occidental, Philippines.
• During a family Christmas Eve supper in Montauban, France, a table exploded, piercing a man's neck artery with a shard of glass and causing him to bleed to death.
• In the 1993 John Hancock Bowl, played at the Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas, the Oklahoma Sooners defeated the Texas Tech Red Raiders by a score of 41–10.
• Родилась: Мария Нисиучи , японская модель, актриса и автор песен; в Фукуоке , Япония.
• Умер:
  • Доротея Паркер , 65 лет, новозеландская спринтерка, рак.
  • Норман Винсент Пил , 95 лет, американский проповедник и писатель, инсульт.
  • Свейнбьорн Бейнтейнссон , 69 лет, исландский религиозный лидер современного язычества , сердечная недостаточность.
  • Йен Цзя-кан (88) — тайваньский политик, второй президент Китайской Республики.

25 декабря 1993 г. (суббота)

• Новая Конституция России вступила в силу со дня ее опубликования.
• Проблемы: Королева Елизавета II рассказала о достигнутом в этом году прогрессе на пути к миру в Северной Ирландии в своем Королевском рождественском послании Соединенному Королевству.
• 59-летняя женщина, которую пресса опознала как «Дженнифер Ф.». родила близнецов в больнице в Лондоне, что вызвало споры и комментарии по всей Европе.
• В матче «Алоха Боул» 1993 года , проходившем на стадионе «Алоха» в Гонолулу , Гавайи, « Колорадо Баффалоз» победили « Фресно Стэйт Бульдогз» со счетом 41–30.
• Рожденный:
  • Леонардо Бассо , итальянский велосипедист; в Кастельфранко Венето , Италия.
  • Ариадна Гутьеррес , колумбийская актриса, телеведущая и модель, Мисс Колумбия 2014 ; в Синселехо , департамент Сукре , Колумбия.
  • Эми Такей , японская актриса, фотомодель и певица; в Нагое , Япония
• Умер:
  • Оже, Пьер Виктор (94 года), французский физик.
  • Ама Найду OLS (урожденная Манонмани Пиллэй), 85 лет, южноафриканская активистка, выступающая против апартеида , сердечная недостаточность.
  • Джефф Филлипс , 30 лет, американский профессиональный скейтбордист , покончил жизнь самоубийством из огнестрельного оружия.
  • Николай Тимков (81) — советский российский художник.

26 декабря 1993 г. (воскресенье)

• В 1993 году началась яхтенная гонка из Сиднея в Хобарт . Он завершится 3 января 1994 года.
• Нападения с гранатами произошли в римско-католическом соборе Давао и в мусульманской мечети в городе Давао , Филиппины. В первом инциденте по меньшей мере шесть человек погибли и более 130 получили ранения, во втором жертв не было.
• актрисы Марлен Дитрих Могила в Берлине (Германия) была осквернена и засыпана фекалиями за день до ее 92-летия.
• Родился: Талени Сеу , игрок союза регби Новой Зеландии; в Окленде , Новая Зеландия

27 декабря 1993 г. (понедельник)

• Израильские солдаты на юге Ливана , приняв патруль ООН за партизанскую группу, убили одного норвежского солдата и ранили другого.
• Профессиональный преступник Роджер Хоан Брэди застрелил офицера Мартина Л. Ганца из полицейского управления Манхэттен-Бич, Калифорния, во время остановки движения. 12-летний племянник Ганца, который ехал вместе с ним, не пострадал.
• Тед Тернер был назван самым влиятельным человеком в спорте по версии The Sporting News .
• Родилась: Оливия Кук , английская актриса; в Олдеме , Большой Манчестер, Англия
• Умер:
  • Майкл Каллен , 38 лет, американский певец, композитор, писатель и активист по борьбе со СПИДом; СПИД-ассоциированные осложнения саркомы Капоши легких
  • Феликс Кибберманн , 91 год, эстонский шахматист и филолог.
  • Эвальд Миксон , 82 года, эстонский футболист, полицейский и военный преступник.
  • Пилет Андре , 75 лет, бельгийский автогонщик.

28 декабря 1993 г. (вторник)

• В штате Нью-Йорк взорвались четыре из шести посылок с бомбами, отправленных членам семьи Бренды Лазор, бывшей девушки Майкла Стивенса, в результате чего погибли пять человек. Мать Лазора, отчим и сестра, коллега ее отчима и подруга ее сестры были убиты; ее дядя был ранен. Две другие бомбы, отправленные членам семьи, были перехвачены полицией. Стивенсу и его другу Эрлу Фигли будут предъявлены обвинения во взрывах 29 декабря.
• В турнире Liberty Bowl 1993 года , проходившем на Мемориальном стадионе Liberty Bowl в Мемфисе, штат Теннесси , «Луисвилл Кардиналс» победили спартанцев штата Мичиган со счетом 18–7.
• В округе Уильямсон, штат Теннесси , американский кантри -певец и автор песен Билли Рэй Сайрус женился на Летисии Джин Финли , матери его годовалой дочери Дестини Хоуп Сайрус (позже известной как Майли Сайрус ).
• Канадская певица и автор песен Шанайа Твен вышла замуж за южноафриканского продюсера Роберта Джона «Матта» Ланге . Они развелись в 2010 году.
• Родилась: Юа Синкава , японская актриса и модель; в префектуре Сайтама, Япония.
• Умер:
  • Альфонсо Балькасар , 67 лет, испанский сценарист, кинорежиссер и продюсер.
  • Говард Кейн (урожденный Говард Коэн), 65 или 67 лет, американский актер, сердечный приступ.
  • Джон Кемп , 53 года, новозеландский футболист и игрок в крикет.
  • Уильям Л. Ширер , 89 лет, американский журналист и историк.

29 декабря 1993 г. (среда)

• Японская альпинистка Ясуко Намба покорила массив Винсон , самую высокую гору Антарктиды , в рамках своей попытки покорить все Семь вершин . Она погибнет во время катастрофы на Эвересте в 1996 году .

Большой Будда (фото в июне 2013 г.).

• Большой Будда статуя высотой 112 футов (34 м) , бронзовая , была посвящена на острове Лантау в Гонконге. В то время это была самая большая бронзовая статуя Будды под открытым небом в мире.
• Пропал 31-летний французский футболист Пьер Бьянкони , корсиканский националист . Его автомобиль был найден в порту Бастии на Корсике.
• Проблемы: Ирландская республиканская армия опубликовала новогоднее послание, в котором не упоминается о прекращении огня , что указывает на неопределенность в отношении Декларации Даунинг-стрит, опубликованной 15 декабря.
• Альберто Фухимори , президент Перу , подписал новую Конституцию Перу в Лиме.
• 9-летний Джои Джейкобс из Честер-Тауншип, штат Огайо, потерял оба уха, сдерживая ротвейлера, напавшего на двух младших детей. Собака наехала на забор с подземной проволокой, произведенный компанией Invisible Fence Inc., чтобы напасть на них.
• В 1993 году в турнире Copper Bowl , сыгранном на стадионе «Аризона» в Тусоне, штат Аризона , «Канзас Стэйт Уайлдкэтс» победили « Вайоминг Ковбойз» со счетом 52–17.
• Рожденный:
  • Трэвис Хед , австралийский игрок в крикет международного уровня; в Аделаиде , Южная Австралия
  • Габби Мэй , канадская спортивная гимнастка; в Виннипеге , Манитоба, Канада.
• Умер:
  • Мари Кин , 75 лет, ирландская актриса.
  • Фрунзик Мкртчян , 63 года, армянский актер театра и кино.

30 декабря 1993 г. (четверг)

• Партия Конгресс получила парламентское большинство в Индии после ухода 10 депутатов от партии Джаната Дал .
• В Иерусалиме представители Израиля и Святого Престола подписали Фундаментальное соглашение между Святым Престолом и Государством Израиль , готовящееся к установлению дипломатических отношений .
• Резня в таверне Гейдельберга : трое боевиков Народно-освободительной армии Азании открыли огонь по таверне в обсерватории в Кейптауне , Южная Африка, убив четырех студентов.
• Проблемы в Кроссмаглене : 23-летний солдат британской армии Дэниел Блинко был застрелен снайпером Ирландской республиканской армии во время армейского пешего патруля в Кроссмаглене , графство Арма, Северная Ирландия.
• Аргентина приняла закон, позволяющий президенту Карлосу Менему и всем будущим президентам баллотироваться на второй срок подряд. Он также сократил срок президентских полномочий до четырех лет и отменил требование о том, чтобы президент был католиком.
• В турнире Freedom Bowl 1993 года , проходившем на стадионе «Анахайм» в Анахайме, Калифорния , троянцы USC победили команду «Юта Ютес» со счетом 28–21.
• В турнире Holiday Bowl 1993 года , сыгранном на стадионе Джека Мерфи в Сан-Диего , Калифорния, « Огайо Стэйт Баккейз» победили BYU Cougars , также со счетом 28–21.
• Умер:
  • Ихсан Сабри Чаглаянгил (84–85), турецкий дипломат и политик.
  • Ирвинг Пол Лазар , 86 лет, американский агент по поиску талантов.
  • Джузеппе Оккиалини (86) — итальянский физик .

31 декабря 1993 г. (пятница)

• В матче «Пич Боул» (декабрь) 1993 года , проходившем в «Джорджия Доум» в Атланте , штат Джорджия, «Клемсон Тайгерс» победили « Кентукки Уайлдкэтс» со счетом 14–13.
• В турнире Gator Bowl 1993 года , проходившем на стадионе Gator Bowl в Джексонвилле, Флорида , команда Alabama Crimson Tide победила команду North Carolina Tar Heels со счетом 24–10.
• В Кубке Независимости 1993 года , сыгранном на Стадионе Независимости в Шривпорте, штат Луизиана , команда Virginia Tech Hokies победила Indiana Hoosiers со счетом 45–20.
• В первом выпуске Alamo Bowl , проходившем в Alamodome в Сан-Антонио , штат Техас, « Калифорнийские золотые медведи» победили « Iowa Hawkeyes» со счетом 37–3.
• В Пампе, штат Техас , Твила Басби была задушена и забита до смерти, а двое ее взрослых сыновей, Рэнди Басби и Элвин Кэлер, были зарезаны. Сожитель Басби, Хэнк Скиннер , будет признан виновным в убийствах в 1995 году и приговорен к смертной казни.
• Рожденный:
  • Райан Блейни , американский автогонщик; в Хартфорд-Тауншип, округ Трамбал, штат Огайо
  • Дэйв Ричардс , валлийский футболист; в Абергавенни , Уэльс
• Умер:
  • Звиад Гамсахурдиа , 54 года, грузинский политик, первый президент Грузии , выстрел в голову.
  • Брэндон Тина , 21 год, американец, жертва убийства, убит вместе с Лизой Ламберт и Филиппом Девайном в Гумбольдте, Небраска . История Тины позже легла в основу фильма «Мальчики не плачут» .
  • Томас Дж. Уотсон-младший , 79 лет, американский бизнесмен, политический деятель и филантроп. Осложнения после инсульта.