December 1993

File:STS061-98-050 - Astronauts Musgrave and Hoffman during servicing of HST (Retouched).jpgs Story Musgrave (on robot arm) and Jeffrey A. Hoffman repairing the Hubble Space Telescope.]]

The following events occurred in December 1993. For a more complete listing of notable deaths this month, see Deaths in December 1993.

December 1, 1993 (Wednesday)

In a barracks room at Naval Amphibious Base Coronado, California, United States Navy Ensign George P. Smith shot and killed Lt. j.g. Alton Grizzard, a former Navy Midshipmen quarterback, and Ensign Kerryn O'Neill, then shot and killed himself.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5BEzAAAAIBAJ&pg=6767,736685&dq=northwest+airlink+flight+5719&hl=en |title=Navy officer kills two, then himself |journal=The Spokesman-Review |agency=Associated Press |date=2 December 1993 |page=A6 |access-date=24 October 2021 |via=Google News}}
In the desert near the border between Yemen and Saudi Arabia, Yemeni kidnappers freed American diplomat Haynes Mahoney after abducting him on November 25. Mahoney's captors negotiated with the Yemeni government for his release, making no demands of the U.S. government.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5BEzAAAAIBAJ&pg=6767,736685&dq=northwest+airlink+flight+5719&hl=en |title=Captors free kidnapped diplomat |journal=The Spokesman-Review |department=World Digest |date=2 December 1993 |page=A8 |access-date=24 October 2021 |via=Google News}}
On World AIDS Day, the World Health Organization announced that 14 million people worldwide were now infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5BEzAAAAIBAJ&pg=6767,736685&dq=northwest+airlink+flight+5719&hl=en |title=14 million now HIV-infected, WHO estimates |journal=The Spokesman-Review |agency=New York Times |date=2 December 1993 |page=A4 |access-date=24 October 2021 |via=Google News}}
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."{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5BEzAAAAIBAJ&pg=6767,736685&dq=northwest+airlink+flight+5719&hl=en |title=Clinton defends AIDS effort: Not enough, heckler says |journal=The Spokesman-Review |agency=Knight-Ridder |date=2 December 1993 |page=A4 |access-date=24 October 2021 |via=Google News}}
United States Secretary of the Navy John Howard Dalton announced that the Navy would assign hundreds of female sailors to aircraft carriers in 1994.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5BEzAAAAIBAJ&pg=6767,736685&dq=northwest+airlink+flight+5719&hl=en |title=Women will serve on warships |journal=The Spokesman-Review |department=National Digest |date=2 December 1993 |page=A3 |access-date=12 October 2022 |via=Google News}}
NASA postponed the scheduled launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour for the STS-61 mission until the following day due to weather.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5BEzAAAAIBAJ&pg=6767,736685&dq=northwest+airlink+flight+5719&hl=en |title=Weather postpones shuttle launch |journal=The Spokesman-Review |department=National Digest |date=2 December 1993 |page=A3 |access-date=12 October 2022 |via=Google News}}{{cite web |last=Dumoulin |first=Jim |title=STS-61 (59) |date=29 June 2001 |publisher=NASA |url=https://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-61/mission-sts-61.html |access-date=25 October 2021 |archive-date=27 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211027182700/https://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-61/mission-sts-61.html |url-status=dead }}
Northwest Airlink Flight 5719 crashed in fog and drizzle during final approach to Chisholm-Hibbing Airport in Hibbing, Minnesota, killing all 18 people aboard.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5BEzAAAAIBAJ&pg=6767,736685&dq=northwest+airlink+flight+5719&hl=en |title=18 perish in crash of plane: Commuter flight goes down in fog |journal=The Spokesman-Review |agency=Associated Press |date=2 December 1993 |page=A3 |access-date=12 October 2022 |via=Google News}}{{cite web |title=FAA HISTORICAL CHRONOLOGY, 1926-1996 |url=https://www.faa.gov/about/history/chronolog_history/media/b-chron.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181011194330/https://www.faa.gov/about/history/chronolog_history/media/b-chron.pdf |archive-date=October 11, 2018 |access-date=June 16, 2022 |publisher=Federal Aviation Administration |page=285 |department=History}}
Born: Reena Pärnat, Estonian Olympic archer; in Pärnu, Estonia{{cite web |url=http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/122568 |title=Reena Pärnat |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=20 October 2021}}
Died:
Lynette Davies, 45, Welsh actress, suicide by drowning (approximate date){{cite web |url=https://denlillemann.no/2020/02/23/lynette-davies-the-unforgettable/ |last=Dyrud |first=PJ |title=Lynette Davies, the Unforgettable |date=23 February 2020 |publisher=Den lille mann |access-date=19 October 2021}}
Ray Gillen, American rock singer-songwriter, 32 or 34, AIDS-related illness{{cite web |url=https://www.black-sabbath.com/theband/gillen/ |title=Ray Gillen |website=Black Sabbath Online |access-date=10 June 2022}}
Sir Ivor Hele, CBE, 81, Australian war artist and portraitist{{cite dictionary |first=Jane |last=Hylton |title=Hele, Sir Ivor Henry (1912–1993) |dictionary=Australian Dictionary of Biography |publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hele-sir-ivor-henry-18979/text30585 |year=2017 |access-date=20 October 2021}}

December 2, 1993 (Thursday)

File:1993 sts61 liftoff.jpg

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.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/03/business/volvo-abandons-renault-merger.html |title=Volvo Abandons Renault Merger |journal=The New York Times |first=Richard W. |last=Stevenson |page=D1 |date=3 December 1993 |access-date=17 October 2021}}
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.{{cite web |url=https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/sutton/chron/1993.html |last=Sutton |first=Malcolm |title=An Index of Deaths from the Conflict in Ireland |website=CAIN Web Service |access-date=19 October 2021}}
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.{{cite web |url=https://www.odmp.org/officer/582-detective-james-edward-obrien |title=Detective James Edward O'Brien, Oxnard Police Department, California |publisher=The Officer Down Memorial Page, Inc |access-date=17 October 2021}}
Born:
Kevin Fischnaller, Italian Olympic luger; in Brixen, South Tyrol, Italy{{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/137408 |title=Kevin Fischnaller |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=18 October 2021}}
Haruka Ishida, Japanese actress and television personality; in Saitama Prefecture, Japan{{cite web |url=https://www.horipro.co.jp/ishidaharuka/ |title=石田晴香 (イシダハルカ) |trans-title=Haruka Ishida (Ishida Haruka) |publisher=HoriPro Inc. |language=ja |access-date=20 October 2021}}
Jak Roberto, Filipino actor, model and singer; in Nagcarlan, Laguna, Philippines{{cite news |url=https://www.philstar.com/entertainment/2017/05/13/1699683/sibling-harmony |last=Lo |first=Ricky |author-link=Ricky Lo |title=Sibling Harmony |department=Conversations |journal=The Philippine Star |date=13 May 2017 |access-date=19 October 2021}}
Kostas Stafylidis, Greek footballer; in Thessaloniki, Greece{{NFT player|49332|Kostas Stafylidis|access-date=20 October 2021}}
Died:
Harry Julius Emeléus CBE, FRS, 90, British inorganic chemist{{Cite journal |last=Greenwood |first=Norman Neill |author-link=Norman Greenwood |date=1 November 1996 |title=Harry Julius Emeléus, C. B. E., 22 June 1903 - 2 December 1993 |journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society |volume=42 |pages=125–150 |doi=10.1098/rsbm.1996.0009 |publisher=The Royal Society |s2cid=71411314 |url=https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbm.1996.0009 |issn=1748-8494 |access-date=21 October 2021|url-access=subscription }}
Pablo Escobar, 44, Colombian drug lord, shot by Colombian National Police in Medellín, Colombia{{cite book |chapter-url=http://www.dea.gov/pubs/history/1990-1994.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060118010530/http://www.dea.gov/pubs/history/1990-1994.html |archive-date=18 January 2006 |title=DEA History Book |chapter=1990 - 1994 |publisher=U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration |access-date=20 October 2021}}

December 3, 1993 (Friday)

File:STS061-93-031 HST rendezvous.jpg

The crew of Space Shuttle Endeavour sighted the Hubble Space Telescope and began the process of orbital rendezvous.
Law enforcement authorities seized {{convert|315|kg}} of heroin in Pae, Thailand.{{cite book |title=DEA History Book |chapter=1994-1998 |chapter-url=https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2021-04/1994-1998_p_76-91.pdf |page=79 |publisher=U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration |access-date=20 October 2021}}
The 1993 Davis Cup men's tennis final between Germany and Australia began at the Messe Düsseldorf Exhibition Hall in Düsseldorf, Germany.{{cite web |url=https://www.daviscup.com/en/draws-results/tie.aspx?id=M-DC-1993-WG-M-AUS-GER-01 |title=Davis Cup Final |website=Davis Cup |department=Draws & Results |publisher=ITF Licensing (UK) Ltd. |access-date=20 October 2021}}
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.{{cite news |last=Beelman |first=Maud S. |date=5 December 1993 |title=Vienna Mayor Injured in Fifth Letter Bomb Attack in Three Days |url=https://apnews.com/article/8572ebbd6dda534ffc68038742ceae12 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220415063317/https://apnews.com/article/8572ebbd6dda534ffc68038742ceae12 |archive-date=April 15, 2022 |access-date=19 October 2021 |publisher=The Associated Press}}
The 1993 National Finals Rodeo began at the Thomas and Mack Arena in Paradise, Nevada. It would conclude on December 12.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5BEzAAAAIBAJ&pg=6767,736685&dq=northwest+airlink+flight+5719&hl=en |title=Miscellany |journal=The Spokesman-Review |department=Sports Digest |date=2 December 1993 |page=C4 |access-date=24 October 2021 |via=Google News}}
Born:
Marques Brownlee, American YouTuber and professional ultimate frisbee player; in Maplewood, New Jersey{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6YEI-bOe-E |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/a6YEI-bOe-E |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|last=Brownlee |first=Marques |author-link=Marques Brownlee |title=MKBHD Update 7.0 |date=3 December 2011 |publisher=YouTube |access-date=20 October 2021}}{{cbignore}}
Clare Cryan, Irish diver{{cite web |url=https://www.the-sports.org/clare-cryan-diving-spf185474.html |title=Diving - Clare Cryan (Ireland) |website=TheSports.org |publisher=Info Média Conseil |access-date=19 October 2021}}
Died:
Witold Majchrzycki, 84, Polish Olympic boxer{{cite web |title=Witold Majchrzycki |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/7745 |access-date=19 October 2021}}
Lea Mek, 18, member of the Asian Boyz street gang, murdered in gang shooting{{cite news |url=https://www.lapdonline.org/july_2008/news_view/38698 |title=Multi Agency Effort to Bring Two Violent Gang members to Justice |publisher=Los Angeles Police Foundation and the LAPD |date=10 July 2008 |access-date=17 October 2021}}
Lewis Thomas, 80, American physician, author and educator, Waldenstrom's disease{{cite dictionary |last=Woodlief |first=Ann |title=Lewis Thomas (1913-1993) |url=https://archive.vcu.edu/english/engweb/LewisThomas.htm |dictionary=Dictionary of Literary Biography |volume=275: Twentieth-Century American Nature Writers: Prose |year=2003 |via=Virginia Commonwealth University |access-date=19 October 2021}}

December 4, 1993 (Saturday)

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,{{cite web |url=https://webapps.doc.state.nc.us/opi/viewoffender.do?method=view&offenderID=525542 |publisher=North Carolina Department of Public Safety |title=Offender Public Information |year=2012 |access-date=17 October 2021}} 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.{{cite news |title=No new trial for L.C. Underwood |url=http://www.salisburypost.com/News/011311-underwood-no-new-trial-for-underwood-qcd |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110302160118/http://www.salisburypost.com/News/011311-underwood-no-new-trial-for-underwood-qcd |archive-date=2 March 2011 |journal=Salisbury Post |location=Salisbury, North Carolina |date=13 January 2011 |access-date=17 October 2021}}
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.{{cite web |url=http://secsports.com/index.php?s=&url_channel_id=0&url_subchannel_id=&url_article_id=2742&change_well_id=2 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060214002406/http://secsports.com/index.php?s=&url_channel_id=0&url_subchannel_id=&url_article_id=2742&change_well_id=2 |archive-date=14 February 2006 |title=1993 SEC Championship Recap |year=2005 |publisher=SEC and Host Communications |access-date=16 October 2021}}
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.{{cite news |title=RICHARD ALLEN DAVIS' LIFE OF CRIME |url=https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/RICHARD-ALLEN-DAVIS-LIFE-OF-CRIME-2971897.php |department=Crime |date=6 August 1996 |journal=SFGate |publisher=Hearst |access-date=17 October 2021}}
Born: Taco van der Hoorn, Dutch cyclist; in Rotterdam, Netherlands{{cite web |url=https://www.eurosport.com/cycling/taco-van-der-hoorn_prs421064/person.shtml |title=Taco van der Hoorn - Player Profile - Cycling |website=Eurosport |access-date=19 October 2021}}
Died:
Margaret Landon, 90, American Presbyterian missionary and writer{{cite web |title=About the Author - Kenneth and Margaret Landon (Southeast Asia) |url=http://www.wheaton.edu/learnres/ARCSC/collects/sc38/bio.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050214060313/http://www.wheaton.edu/learnres/ARCSC/collects/sc38/bio.htm |archive-date=14 February 2005 |publisher=Wheaton College |access-date=20 October 2021}}
Hugh Moore, {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|QPM}}, 64, City of London Police commander, heart failure two weeks after violent struggle with suspect{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/police-chief-dies-after-suffering-arrest-injury-1465680.html |title=Police chief dies after suffering arrest injury |journal=The Independent |date=6 December 1993 |access-date=9 November 2021}}
Roy Vernon, 56, Welsh international footballer, cancer{{NFT player|19884|Roy Vernon|access-date=19 October 2021}}
Frank Zappa, 52, American guitarist and composer, prostate cancer{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-frank-zappa-1465925.html |last=Gill |first=Andy |author-link=Andy Gill |title=Obituary: Frank Zappa |department=People |date=7 December 1993 |journal=The Independent |access-date=15 October 2021}}{{cite web |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba1d4b3a8 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210730160410/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba1d4b3a8 |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 30, 2021 |title=Frank Zappa |department=Films, TV and people |publisher=British Film Institute |access-date=15 October 2021}}

December 5, 1993 (Sunday)

American astronauts Kathryn C. Thornton and Thomas Akers conducted the STS-61 mission's second extravehicular activity overnight (EST).
The 1993 World Women's Handball Championship concluded in Norway; Germany defeated Denmark in the final.{{cite web |url=http://www.todor66.com/handball/World/Women_1993.html |title=Women Handball World Championship 1993 in Norway - 24.11-05.12 Champion Germany |website=todor66.com |access-date=17 October 2021}}
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.{{cite web |url=https://africanelections.tripod.com/ga.html |title=Elections in Gabon |work=African Elections Database |date=20 February 2012 |access-date=15 October 2021}}
Helmut Zilk, the Mayor of Vienna, was severely injured and lost two fingers when he opened a letter bomb at his home.{{cite news |last=Heinrich |first=Mark |title=Ex-Vienna mayor targeted by letter bomb dies at 81 |editor-last=Boyle |editor-first=Jon |publisher=Reuters |department=World News |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKTRE49N2BY20081024?edition-redirect=uk |date=24 October 2008 |access-date=19 October 2021}} 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.
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.{{cite web |editor-last=Ortiz de Zárate |editor-first=Roberto |title=Rafael Caldera Rodríguez |department=Venezuela |date=24 January 2019 |publisher=Fundación CIDOB |language=es |url=https://www.cidob.org/biografias_lideres_politicos/america_del_sur/venezuela/rafael_caldera_rodriguez |access-date=15 October 2021}}
Born: Ross Barkley, English footballer; in Liverpool, England{{NFT player|53587|Ross Barkley|access-date=15 October 2021}}
Died:
Doug Hopkins, 32, American musician and songwriter, suicide by gunshot{{cite web |url=http://www.losthorizons.info/biography.html |title=Biography |website=Lost Horizons - A Tribute To Doug Hopkins |publisher=Mark Ord / Katie Jensen |year=2013 |access-date=19 October 2021}}
Rita Macedo, 68, Mexican actress, suicide by gunshot{{cite news |last=Zuñiga |first=J.F. |title=Su suicidio fue su único escándalo |trans-title=Her suicide was her only scandal |journal=El Universal |location=Mexico City |department=Espectáculos |date=26 April 2009 |language=es |url=https://archivo.eluniversal.com.mx/espectaculos/89705.html |access-date=19 October 2021}}

December 6, 1993 (Monday)

File:Thornton Prepares to Release Hubble Array - GPN-2000-001155.jpg

Astronauts Musgrave and Hoffman began the STS-61 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.{{cite news |last=Wenner |first=David |title=Most notorious cold cases in Pa.: These unsolved killings continue to haunt |url=https://www.pennlive.com/news/2017/11/pa_cold_cases_decades_of_unsol.html |date=22 May 2019 |website=Penn Live |access-date=19 October 2021}}
Born:
Jasprit Bumrah, Indian cricketer; in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India{{cite web |title=Jasprit Bumrah profile and biography, stats, records, averages, photos and videos |website=ESPNcricinfo |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/jasprit-bumrah-625383 |publisher=ESPN Sports Media Ltd. |access-date=16 October 2021}}
Pedro Mendes, Portuguese footballer; in Barreiro, Portugal{{Soccerway|id=214613|name=Pedro Mendes|access-date=4 May 2022}}
Tautau Moga, Samoa international rugby league footballer; in Ipswich, Queensland, Australia{{cite web |url=http://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/players/tautau-moga/summary.html |title=Tautau Moga - Career Stats & Summary |website=Rugby League Project |date=16 October 2021 |publisher=Shawn Dollin, Andrew Ferguson and Bill Bates |access-date=20 October 2021}}
Miljan Rovcanin, Serbian professional boxer; in Bar, Republic of Montenegro, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia{{cite web |title=Miljan ROVCANIN |website=Sport & Note |url=http://www.sportenote.com/vedi_dettagli.asp?id=47707 |access-date=19 October 2021}}
Died:
Don Ameche, 85, American actor, prostate cancer{{cite news |last=Heise |first=Kenan |title=OSCAR-WINNING ACTOR DON AMECHE, 85 |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1993-12-08-9312080183-story.html |journal=Chicago Tribune |date=8 December 1993 |access-date=15 October 2021}}{{cite web |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/don-ameche-29786 |title=Don Ameche - Broadway Cast & Staff |work=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=15 October 2021}}
Alexandre Trauner, 87, Hungarian set designer{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-alexandre-trauner-1468794.html |last=Shipman |first=David |author-link=David Shipman (writer) |title=Obituary: Alexandre Trauner |journal=The Independent |department=People |date=23 October 2011 |access-date=15 October 2021}}

December 7, 1993 (Tuesday)

Astronauts Thornton and Akers began the STS-61 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.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2457&dat=19931209&id=zjszAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pjgHAAAAIBAJ&pg=1256,2512565&hl=en |last=Wilford |first=John Noble |author-link=John Noble Wilford |title=Astronauts put glasses on Hubble Telescope: Time needed to see if new mirrors work |journal=Bangor Daily News |agency=The New York Times |date=9 December 1993 |page=18 |access-date=24 October 2021 |via=Google News}}
The Transitional Executive Committee, a government-in-waiting including members of the African National Congress and the National Party, was established in South Africa.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9OJLy2TwJdYC&pg=PA68 |last=Bond |first=Patrick |title=Against Global Apartheid: South Africa meets the World Bank, IMF and International Finance |publisher=University of Cape Town Press, Zed Books Ltd |edition=Second |year=2003 |page=68 |isbn=1-919-71382-4 |access-date=16 October 2021 |via=Google Books}}{{cite journal |url=https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/25451/ |last1=Padaychee |first1=Vishnu |last2=Fine |first2=Ben |author-link2=Ben Fine |year=2018 |title=The Role and Influence of the IMF on Economic Policy in South Africa's Transition to Democracy: The 1993 Compensatory and Contingency Financing Facility Revisited |journal=Review of African Political Economy |volume=46 |issue=159 |pages=157–167 |issn=0305-6244 |access-date=16 October 2021 |via=SOAS Research Online |doi=10.1080/03056244.2018.1484352|s2cid=158444181 |hdl=10.1080/03056244.2018.1484352 |hdl-access=free }}
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.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1993/12/09/ny-train-killings-suspect-was-motivated-by-bias/37c1df9a-fb70-48d9-b176-81d3352e2fb7/?noredirect=on |last1=Gladwell |first1=Malcolm |author-link1=Malcolm Gladwell |last2=Stassen-Berger |first2=Rachel E. |title=N.Y. Train Killings Suspect Was 'Motivated By Bias' |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=December 9, 1993 |access-date=15 October 2021}}
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{{cite web |url=https://www.zimbio.com/Jasmine+Villegas |title=Jasmine Villegas |website=Zimbio |publisher=Livingly Media, Inc. |access-date=15 October 2021}}
Rahama Sadau, Nigerian actress and filmmaker; in Kaduna, Nigeria{{cite web |title=Rahama Sadau biography, net worth, age, family, contact & picture |url=https://www.manpower.com.ng/people/15996/rahama-sadau |publisher=Manpower Nigeria |access-date=20 October 2021}}{{cite web |title=Rahama Sadau [HausaFilms.TV - Kannywood, Fina-finai, Hausa Movies, TV and Celebrities] |url=http://hausafilms.tv/actress/rahma_sadau |date=8 November 2020 |website=HausaFilms.TV |access-date=20 October 2021}}
Kiyou Shimizu, Japanese Olympic karateka; in Osaka, Japan{{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/144403 |title=Kiyou Shimizu |website=Olympedia |access-date=18 October 2021}}
Died:
Nicky Crane, 35, English neo-Nazi activist, AIDS-related bronchopneumonia{{cite news |title=Nicky Crane: The secret double life of a gay neo-Nazi |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25142557 |work=BBC News |date=6 December 2013 |first=Jon |last=Kelly |access-date=3 November 2021}}{{cite news |title=Former fascist organizer dies |journal=Capital Gay |date=December 1988}}, cited in {{cite web |title=Nicky Crane | Searchlight case study |work=Political Extremism & Radicalism: Far-Right and Left Political Groups in US, Europe and Australia |url=https://www.gale.com/binaries/content/assets/gale-us-en/campaigns/intl-case-studies/nicky-crane-case-study-_-political-extremism.pdf |publisher=Gale |access-date=3 November 2021}}
Abidin Dino, 80, Turkish artist and painter{{cite web |url=https://www.biyografi.info/kisi/abidin-dino |title=Abidin Dino |website=Biyografi.info |publisher=Tüm Hakları Saklıdır |language=tr |access-date=20 October 2021}}
Félix Houphouët-Boigny, 88, 1st President of Ivory Coast, the oldest African head of state, prostate cancer{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/08/obituaries/felix-houphouet-boigny-ivory-coast-s-leader-since-freedom-in-1960-is-dead.html |last=Noble |first=Kenneth B. |title=Felix Houphouet-Boigny, Ivory Coast's Leader Since Freedom in 1960, Is Dead |journal=The New York Times |date=8 December 1993 |access-date=15 October 2021}}
Wolfgang Paul, 80, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate{{cite web |title=Wolfgang Paul – Facts |website=NobelPrize.org |publisher=Nobel Prize Outreach AB |year=2021 |access-date=15 October 2021 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1989/paul/facts/}}

December 8, 1993 (Wednesday)

Astronauts Musgrave and Hoffman began the STS-61 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.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2457&dat=19931209&id=zjszAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pjgHAAAAIBAJ&pg=1256,2512565&hl=en |last=Atkinson |first=Rick |author-link=Rick Atkinson |title=2 neo-Nazi skinheads guilty: Duo given maximum sentence for firebombing murders |journal=Bangor Daily News |agency=The Washington Post |date=9 December 1993 |page=27 |access-date=24 October 2021 |via=Google News}}
Using eight pens, U.S. President Bill Clinton signed the North American Free Trade Agreement into law.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2457&dat=19931209&id=zjszAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pjgHAAAAIBAJ&pg=1256,2512565&hl=en |last=Raum |first=Tom |title=Clinton signs NAFTA, urges global accord: Agreement creates largest free-trade zone |journal=Bangor Daily News |agency=AP |date=9 December 1993 |page=24 |access-date=24 October 2021 |via=Google News}}{{cite web |title=Clinton Signs NAFTA -- December 8, 1993 |work=American President: An Online Reference Resource |url=http://millercenter.org/academic/americanpresident/events/12_08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101010231531/http://millercenter.org/academic/americanpresident/events/12_08 |archive-date=10 October 2010 |publisher=Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia |access-date=15 October 2021}}
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.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2457&dat=19931209&id=zjszAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pjgHAAAAIBAJ&pg=1256,2512565&hl=en |title=2 teaching hospitals to merge in Boston |journal=Bangor Daily News |agency=AP |date=9 December 1993 |page=17 |access-date=24 October 2021 |via=Google News}}
Born:
Janari Jõesaar, Estonian professional basketball player{{cite web |title=Janari Joesaar Player Profile, medi Bayreuth, news, stats |url=https://basketball.eurobasket.com/player/Janari-Joesaar/Germany/medi-Bayreuth/192222 |publisher=Eurobasket Inc. |access-date=20 October 2021}}
Cara Mund, Miss America 2018; in Bismarck, North Dakota{{cite web |url=https://www.zimbio.com/Cara+Mund |title=Cara Mund |website=Zimbio |publisher=Livingly Media, Inc. |access-date=20 October 2021}}{{Unreliable source?|date=October 2021}}
Jordan Obita, English footballer; in Oxford, England{{cite web |title=Jordan Obita | Football Stats | Wycombe Wanderers | Age 27 |website=Soccerbase |publisher=Centurycomm Limited |url=https://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=55856 |access-date=20 October 2021}}
AnnaSophia Robb, American actress, singer and model; in Denver, Colorado{{cite web |title=AnnaSophia Robb |website=Rotten Tomatoes |publisher=Fandango |access-date=15 October 2021 |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/annasophia_robb}}
Óscar Salas, Honduran professional and Olympic footballer; in Olanchito, Honduras{{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/134350 |title=Óscar Salas |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=16 May 2022}}
Died: Yevgeny Minayev, 60, Soviet Olympic champion weightlifter, starvation and hypothermia{{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/56910 |title=Yevgeny Minayev |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=29 April 2022}}

December 9, 1993 (Thursday)

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Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Sunset Boulevard received its American premiere in Los Angeles.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/09/theater/hollywood-braces-for-look-into-mirror-of-sunset-boulevard.html?pagewanted=all |title=Hollywood Braces For Look Into Mirror Of Sunset Boulevard |journal=The New York Times |date=9 December 1993 |access-date=16 October 2021}}
Born:
Mark McMorris, Canadian professional and Olympic snowboarder; in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada{{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/127529 |title=Mark McMorris |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=20 October 2021}}
Laura Smulders, Dutch Olympic racing cyclist; in Nijmegen, Netherlands{{cite web |title=Laura Smulders |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/121888 |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=20 October 2021}}
Olga Zubova, Russian weightlifter{{cite web |url=https://iwf.sport/weightlifting_/athletes-bios/?athlete=zubova-olga-1993-12-09&id=2990&__cf_chl_managed_tk__=pmd_F0MQ_2Eztu9JeGQ_ZWtiL7KsjoXmCHzRQbm_WhgEaAA-1634566347-0-gqNtZGzNA2WjcnBszQf9 |title=Zubova Olga |department=Athletes / Bios |year=2020 |publisher=International Weightlifting Federation |access-date=18 October 2021}}
Died: Danny Blanchflower, 67, Northern Ireland international footballer and football manager, bronchopneumonia{{cite dictionary |dictionary=The Dictionary of Ulster Biography |last=Froggatt |first=Richard |title=Danny Blanchflower (1926 - 1993): Footballer and journalist |url=http://www.newulsterbiography.co.uk/index.php/home/viewPerson/1785 |publisher=Ulster History Circle |access-date=15 October 2021}}

December 10, 1993 (Friday)

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.{{cite news |url=https://www.libyaobserver.ly/news/who-mansour-al-kikhia |author=SafaAlharathy |title=Who is Mansour Al-Kikhia? |journal=The Libya Observer |date=26 July 2017 |access-date=16 October 2021}}{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SZMtDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA129 |last=West |first=Nigel |author-link=Rupert Allason |title=KIKHIA, MANSOUR AL- |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Political Assassinations |location=Lanham, Maryland |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |year=2017 |page=129 |isbn=9781538102398 |access-date=16 October 2021 |via=Google Books}}
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.{{cite book |author=Office of Civil Aviation Security |title=Criminal Acts Against Civil Aviation 1993 |publisher=United States Department of Transportation |page=30 |year=1993}}
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.{{cite news |title=Hopes fading for Scots soldiers lost in Glencoe |date=14 December 1993 |url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12705235.hopes-fading-for-scots-soldiers-lost-in-glencoe/ |journal=The Herald |location=Glasgow |access-date=21 October 2021}}{{cite news |title=Avalanche swept missing soldiers to sudden death |date=15 December 1993 |journal=The Herald |location=Glasgow |url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12706156.avalanche-swept-missing-soldiers-to-sudden-death/ |access-date=21 October 2021}}
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.{{cite web |url=https://safc.com/news/club-news/2017/july/the-story-behind-the-sol |last=Vose |first=Stuart |title=FROM COALS TO GOALS: The story behind the SoL |date=19 July 2017 |website=SAFC |access-date=20 October 2021}}
Nelson Mandela and F. W. de Klerk were awarded the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize at Oslo City Hall in Oslo, Norway.{{cite web |title=The Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony 1993 |website=NobelPrize.org |publisher=Nobel Prize Outreach AB |access-date=16 October 2021 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/ceremonies/the-nobel-peace-prize-award-ceremony-1993/}}
id Software's Doom was released, becoming a landmark title in first-person shooter video games.{{cite news |url=https://qz.com/1490069/doom-the-game-that-kicked-off-a-video-game-revolution-turns-25-today/ |last=Gershgorn |first=Dave |title=The game that kicked off a video game revolution turns 25 today |work=Quartz |date=10 December 2018 |access-date=19 October 2021}}
Died:
Fernand Mithouard, 84, French professional cyclist{{cite web |title=Fernand Mithouard |url=http://www.cyclingarchives.com/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=6091 |website=Cycling Archives |publisher=de Wielersite |access-date=3 November 2021}}
Alice Tully, 91, American opera and recital singer and arts patron{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/11/obituaries/alice-tully-is-dead-at-91-lifelong-patron-of-the-arts.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm |last=Kozinn |first=Allan |author-link=Allan Kozinn |title=Alice Tully Is Dead at 91; Lifelong Patron of the Arts |journal=The New York Times |date=11 December 1993 |access-date=20 October 2021}}
Alan E. Zimmer, M.D., 64, American neuroradiologist, stroke{{cite journal |title=Alan E. Zimmer |first=Lester |last=Kalisher |date=1 August 1994 |journal=Radiology |volume=192 |issue=2 |page=586 |doi=10.1148/radiology.192.2.586-b}}

December 11, 1993 (Saturday)

One of the three blocks of the Highland Towers near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia collapsed, killing 48.{{cite web |title=History Asia - The Highland Towers Disaster |publisher=A&E Television Networks |year=2008 |url=http://www.historyasia.com/synopsis.aspx?libId=1401&sId=826&sTime=1320 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110711171851/http://www.historyasia.com/synopsis.aspx?libId=1401&sId=826&sTime=1320 |archive-date=11 July 2011 |access-date=15 October 2021}}
Henri Konan Bédié succeeded Félix Houphouët-Boigny, who died on December 7, as President of Ivory Coast.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/11/world/new-ivory-coast-president-is-named-by-supreme-court.html |title=New Ivory Coast President Is Named by Supreme Court |journal=The New York Times |agency=The Associated Press |date=11 December 1993 |page=7 |access-date=16 October 2021}}
In the 1993 Chilean general election, Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle was elected President of Chile with 58% of the vote.{{cite web |url=https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/chile/politics-1993.htm |title=Chile - Elections 1993 |publisher=GlobalSecurity.org |access-date=17 October 2021}}
In the Atlantic Ocean, the {{convert|30|foot|adj=on}} 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 {{convert|35|foot|adj=on}} waves and {{convert|70|mph|adj=on}} 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.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=861&dat=19931224&id=2ChSAAAAIBAJ&pg=3973,1311126 |title=Pair survive sea mishap, return home for holidays |agency=AP |journal=The Victoria Advocate |date=24 December 1993 |page=13C |access-date=25 October 2021 |via=Google News}}
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.{{cite news |last1=Melillo |first1=Wendy |last2=Weil |first2=Martin |title=MAN CRUSHED TO DEATH UNDER HOUSE |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=12 December 1993 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1993/12/12/man-crushed-to-death-under-house/c5535ada-d204-428a-a07d-e8be23027dc3/ |access-date=19 October 2021}}
Born:
Yalitza Aparicio, Mexican actress and educator; in Tlaxiaco, Mexico{{cite news |journal=Heraldo de Mexico |date=23 February 2019 |access-date=15 October 2021 |title=Yalitza Aparicio, biografía de la estrella de "Roma" |url=https://heraldodemexico.com.mx/tendencias/yalitza-aparicio-biografia-de-la-estrella-de-roma/ |language=es |trans-title=Yalitza Aparicio, biography of the star of "Roma" |archive-date=31 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331185815/https://heraldodemexico.com.mx/tendencias/yalitza-aparicio-biografia-de-la-estrella-de-roma/ |url-status=dead }}
Tyrone Gilks, Australian motorcycle personality; in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia (d. 2013 in training crash){{cite magazine |url=http://www.forty8.com/index.php?mainId=12&mediaId=picofthemontharchive |title=Picture Gallery Archive |magazine=FORTY8 Freestyle MX Online Magazine |department=MediaCorner |access-date=18 October 2021}}
Mikoy Morales (born Vincent Marco Chu Morales), Filipino actor, model and singer; in Roxas, Capiz, Philippines{{cite web |url=https://www.showbizportal.net/2012/10/mikoy-morales-of-protege-thinks-jeric.html?m=1 |title=Mikoy Morales Of 'Protege' Thinks Jeric Gonzales Is His Toughest Rival |website=Showbiz Portal |date=17 October 2012 |access-date=19 October 2021}}
Died:
Bill Mumm {{post-nominals|country=NZL|OBE|JP|size=85%}}, 71, New Zealand rugby union player and politician{{cite web |url=http://stats.allblacks.com/asp/Profile.asp?ABID=639 |last=Knight |first=Lindsay |title=Bill Mumm #507 |department=Match Centre |website=allblacks.com |access-date=19 October 2021}}
Elvira Popescu, 99, Romanian-French actress{{cite web |url=http://www.cineartistes.com/index.php?page=afficher&id=Elvire+Popesco |title=Elvire Popesco |website=CinéArtistes.com |date=26 April 2020 |publisher=Philippe Pelletier |language=fr |access-date=15 October 2021}}

December 12, 1993 (Sunday)

In the 1993 Russian constitutional referendum, 58.4% of voters approved of the new Constitution of Russia.{{cite web |url=http://archive.kremlin.ru/eng/articles/ConstMain.shtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207162042/http://archive.kremlin.ru/eng/articles/ConstMain.shtml |archive-date=7 February 2012 |title=The Constitution of Russia |website=President of Russia Official Web Portal |access-date=19 October 2021}}
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 {{convert|450|lb|adj=on}} lion named Helmut attacked and severely injured an employee at Lion Country Safari.{{cite news |url=https://www.palmbeachpost.com/entertainment/lion-country-safari-animals-bit-gored-and-mauled-visitors-staff/47ceu8acWU4Ic2tGXez0FJ/ |last=Marshall |first=Barbara |title=Lion Country Safari history: Animals bit, gored and mauled visitors, staff |journal=The Palm Beach Post |date=25 August 2017 |department=Entertainment |access-date=23 October 2021 |archive-date=23 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211023100128/https://www.palmbeachpost.com/entertainment/lion-country-safari-animals-bit-gored-and-mauled-visitors-staff/47ceu8acWU4Ic2tGXez0FJ/ |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=https://www.humanesociety.org/sites/default/files/docs/captive-big-cat-incidents.pdf |title=Big Cat Incidents |publisher=The Humane Society of the United States |page=34 |access-date=21 October 2021}}
Born: Zeli Ismail, English footballer; in Kukës, Albania{{cite web |title=Zeli Ismail | Football Stats | Hereford FC | Age 27 |website=Soccerbase |publisher=Centurycomm Limited |url=https://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=67639 |access-date=20 October 2021}}
Died:
József Antall, 61, 53rd Prime Minister of Hungary, non-Hodgkin lymphoma{{cite news |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-979404.html |title=Hungarian Prime Minister Jozsef Antall Dies at 61 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924202152/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-979404.html |archive-date=24 September 2015 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=13 December 1993 |access-date=15 October 2021 |via=HighBeam Research}}
Ned Barry, 88, New Zealand rugby union player and police officer{{cite web |url=http://stats.allblacks.com/asp/Profile.asp?ABID=40 |last=Knight |first=Lindsay |title=Ned Barry #397 |department=Match Centre |website=allblacks.com |access-date=19 October 2021}}

December 13, 1993 (Monday)

60 people died and 8 were injured in a fire at a textile factory in Fuzhou, China.{{cite news |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1993-12-13-9312160032-story.html |title=CHINESE TEXTILE FACTORY FIRE KILLS 60 |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |department=News |date=13 December 1993 |access-date=2 May 2022}}

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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.{{cite news |url=https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/785954/in-the-know-death-penalty |title=IN THE KNOW: Death penalty |newspaper=Philippine Daily Inquirer |department=Nation |date=17 May 2016 |access-date=18 October 2021}}{{cite news |url=https://www.philstar.com/opinion/2019/08/02/1939853/useless-and-inhumane |last=Sison |first=Jose C. |author-link=Jose C. Sison |title=Useless and inhumane |department=A Law Each Day (Keeps Trouble Away) |journal=The Philippine Star |date=2 August 2019 |access-date=18 October 2021}}{{cite news |url=https://www.rappler.com/newsbreak/iq/things-to-know-heinous-crimes-philippines |last=Gavilan |first=Jodesz |title=What are heinous crimes? |website=Rappler |date=3 September 2019 |access-date=12 April 2021}}
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.{{cite journal |url=https://www.nonproliferation.org/wp-content/uploads/npr/laumul12.pdf |last=Laumulin |first=Murat |title=Viewpoint: Nuclear Politics and the Future Security of Kazakhstan |translator-last=Boyle |translator-first=Catherine |journal=The Nonproliferation Review |date=Winter 1994 |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=61–65 |doi=10.1080/10736709408436540 |access-date=16 October 2021}}
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.{{cite web |title=Jean-Pierre Imbrohoris (auteur de Joy) |trans-title=Jean-Pierre Imbrohoris (author of Joy)|url=https://www.babelio.com/auteur/Jean-Pierre-Imbrohoris/178007 |publisher=Babelio |language=fr |access-date=18 October 2021}}
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.{{cite news |last=Farnsworth |first=Clyde H. |title=Campbell Resigns as Tory Leader in Canada |journal=The New York Times |date=14 December 1993 |page=A9 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/14/world/campbell-resigns-as-tory-leader-in-canada.html |access-date=24 October 2021}}{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/kim-campbell |last=Boyko |first=John |title=Kim Campbell |encyclopedia=The Canadian Encyclopedia |date=11 August 2011 |publisher=Historica Canada |access-date=15 October 2021}}
Born: Shaun Edwards, Australian rules footballer{{cite web |url=https://afltables.com/afl/stats/players/S/Shaun_Edwards.html |title=Shaun Edwards - Stats - Statistics |website=AFL Tables |access-date=17 October 2021}}
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{{cite web |url=https://www.cagematch.net//?id=2&nr=1888&gimmick=Larry+Cameron |title=Larry Cameron |work=CAGEMATCH - The Internet Wrestling Database |department=Wrestlers Database |publisher=Philip Kreikenbohm |access-date=19 October 2021}}
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)

Members of the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria massacred 12 Christian employees of the Croatian construction company Hidroelektra in a village southwest of Algiers.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/algerian-extremists-murder-12-foreigners-massacre-by-suspected-islamists-brings-country-a-step-nearer-anarchy-1467707.html |author=((Middle East Editor)) |title=Algerian extremists murder 12 foreigners: Massacre by suspected Islamists brings country a step nearer anarchy |journal=The Independent |department=World |date=23 October 2011 |access-date=17 October 2021}}
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.{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1501/16/drow.01.html |title=Death Row Stories: Nathan Dunlap |department=Transcripts |date=16 January 2015 |publisher=Cable News Network |access-date=17 October 2021}} Dunlap would be sentenced to death in 1996.{{cite news |url=https://www.cnn.com/2014/07/31/us/death-row-stories-dunlap/ |last=Patterson |first=Thom |title=Election results favor Colorado death row inmate |date=13 December 2014 |publisher=Cable News Network |access-date=17 October 2021}} His sentence would be commuted to life in prison without the possibility of parole when Colorado abolished the death penalty in 2020.{{cite news |url=https://coloradosun.com/2020/03/23/colorado-death-penalty-repeal/ |last1=Paul |first1=Jesse |last2=Ingold |first2=John |title=Governor signs bill abolishing Colorado's death penalty, commutes sentences of state's 3 death row inmates |journal=The Colorado Sun |date=23 March 2020 |access-date=17 October 2021}}
Born: Antonio Giovinazzi, Italian racing driver; in Martina Franca, Italy{{cite web |url=https://www.driverdb.com/drivers/antonio-giovinazzi/ |title=Antonio Giovinazzi | Racing career profile |work=Driver Database |publisher=DriverDB AB |access-date=20 October 2021}}
Died:
Jeff Alm, 25, National Football League defensive tackle, suicide by gunshot after causing his best friend's death in car crash{{cite magazine |url=https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/august-2019/the-night-jeff-alm-died/ |last1=Tritsch |first1=Shane |last2=Mogharei |first2=Phoebe |title=The Night Jeff Alm Died |magazine=Chicago |date=20 August 2019 |orig-year=First published in August 1994 as "'I Have a Buddy Dying'" |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190820220311/http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/August-2019/The-Night-Jeff-Alm-Died/ |archive-date=20 August 2019 |url-status=live |access-date=19 October 2021}}
Shirley J. Dreiss, 44, American hydrologist and hydrogeologist, traffic collision{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SCS19931216.1.5&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Highway 17 accident victim was noted UCSC professor |journal=Santa Cruz Sentinel |volume=136 |issue=345 |date=16 December 1993 |page=5 |access-date=10 June 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
Francis Jones CVO, TD, DL, FSA, MA, KStJ, 85, Welsh historian and officer of arms{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-major-francis-jones-1469346.html |last=Lloyd |first=Thomas |title=Obituary: Major Francis Jones |journal=The Independent |department=People |date=23 October 2011 |access-date=19 October 2021}}
Myrna Loy, 88, American actress{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/archives/la-me-myrna-loy-19931215-story.html |last=Folkart |first=Burt A. |title=From the Archives: Myrna Loy, Star of 'Thin Man' Films, Dies at 88 |journal=Los Angeles Times |department=Obituaries |date=15 December 1993 |access-date=15 October 2021}}

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.{{cite news |url=https://apnews.com/article/e959124f5398b61ff33f7d9af0b3dd45 |title=Military Cargo Plane Crashes in Philippines |publisher=AP |date=15 December 1993 |access-date=19 October 2021}}{{cite news |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1993/12/15/C-130-Air-Force-plane-crashes-in-Philippines/5006755931600/ |title=C-130 Air Force plane crashes in Philippines |publisher=UPI |date=15 December 1993 |access-date=19 October 2021}}{{cite news |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1993/12/16/No-survivors-found-in-wreckage-of-C-130-air-force-plane/8485756018000/ |title=No survivors found in wreckage of C-130 air force plane |publisher=UPI |date=16 December 1993 |access-date=19 October 2021}}
An IAI Westwind business jet crashed in Orange County, California, killing all of the five passengers, including the then current president of In-N-Out Burger Rich Snyder.
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.{{cite news |url=http://iwpr.net/report-news/azeri-veterans-recall-military-fiasco |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130605195119/http://iwpr.net/report-news/azeri-veterans-recall-military-fiasco |archive-date=5 June 2013 |last=Abbasov |first=Idrak |author-link=Idrak Abbasov |title=Azeri Veterans Recall Military Fiasco |journal=CRS |department=Caucasus |issue=219 |date=21 February 2004 |publisher=Institute for War & Peace Reporting |access-date=18 October 2021}}
Irish Taoiseach Albert Reynolds and British Prime Minister John Major issued their joint Downing Street Declaration on the future of Northern Ireland.{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/15/newsid_4032000/4032141.stm |title=1993: Anglo–Irish pact paves way for peace |access-date=18 October 2021 |year=2008 |work=On This Day |publisher=BBC News |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080307120320/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/15/newsid_4032000/4032141.stm |archive-date=7 March 2008 |url-status=live}}
The Uruguay Round of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) talks reached a successful conclusion after seven years.{{cite web |title=The Uruguay Round |url=http://www.wto.org/trade_resources/history/wto/urug_round.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060822200650/http://www.wto.org/trade_resources/history/wto/urug_round.htm |publisher=World Trade Organization |department=Trade Resources |archive-date=22 August 2006 |access-date=15 October 2021}}
Born:
Yuko Araki, Japanese actress and model; in Tokyo, Japan{{cite web |url=https://www.stardust.co.jp/section3/profile/arakiyuko.html |script-title=ja:新木優子 |trans-title=YUKO NIIGI |publisher=Stardust Promotion, Inc. Stardust Music, Inc. |language=ja |access-date=19 October 2021}}
Alina Eremia, Romanian singer; in Buftea, Ilfov County, Romania{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.abcmuzical.ro/artisti/alina-eremia/biografie |title=Alina Eremia |encyclopedia=Enciclopedia Muzicala a Romaniei |language=ro |access-date=15 October 2021 |archive-date=28 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160828174502/http://www.abcmuzical.ro/artisti/alina-eremia/biografie |url-status=dead }}
Died:
Raúl Esnal, 37, Uruguayan footballer, murdered in El Salvador; the case remains unsolved{{cite news |last=Carbajal |first=Jorge |title=Mareros asesinan a entrenador |trans-title=Mareros assassinate coach |journal=El Diario de Hoy |department=Deportes |url=http://www.elsalvador.com/noticias/2001/2/13/DEPORTES/depor6.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121004135750/http://www.elsalvador.com/noticias/2001/2/13/DEPORTES/depor6.html |archive-date=4 October 2012 |date=13 February 2001 |language=es |access-date=15 October 2021}}{{NFT player|42327|Raúl Esnal|access-date=15 October 2021}}
Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau {{postnominals|country=GBR|GCMG|KCVO|KBE|DSO|ED}}, 75, 1st President of Fiji, leukemia{{cite news |title=Penaia Ganilau, 75, Fiji Leader Who Became the First President |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/17/obituaries/penaia-ganilau-75-fiji-leader-who-became-the-first-president.html |journal=The New York Times |date=17 December 1993 |access-date=15 October 2021}}
William Dale Phillips, 68, American chemist{{cite book |last=Shulman |first=Robert G. |author-link=Robert G. Shulman |chapter=William D. Phillips 1925–1993 |chapter-url=https://www.nap.edu/html/biomems/wphillips.pdf |title=Biographical Memoirs |volume=78 |year=2000 |publisher=The National Academy Press |location=Washington, D.C. |pages=165–181 |access-date=20 October 2021}}

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.{{cite magazine |last=Shellenbarger |first=Pat |title=1993 Chelsea school shooter on gun control: 'These are man-made efforts to try to correct what can't be corrected' |department=Politics & Elections |date=11 April 2013 |magazine=Bridge Magazine |url=https://www.mlive.com/politics/2013/04/chelsea_school_shooter_gun_con.html |publisher=The Center for Michigan |access-date=21 October 2021}}
Born:
Jyoti Amge, Indian actress, world's shortest living woman; in Nagpur, Maharashtra, India{{cite news |url=https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2011/12/new-world%E2%80%99s-smallest-woman-ten-things-you-need-to-know-about-jyoti-amge/ |author=Guinness World Records News |title=New world's smallest woman: Ten things you need to know about Jyoti Amge |date=14 December 2011 |publisher=Guinness World Records Limited |access-date=3 November 2021}}
Thiago Braz, Brazilian Olympic champion pole vaulter; in Marília, São Paulo, Brazil{{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/132777 |title=Thiago Braz |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=15 October 2021}}
Lola Créton, French actress; in Paris, France{{cite web |title=Lola Créton |website=Rotten Tomatoes |publisher=Fandango |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/770838929 |access-date=3 November 2021}}
Stephan James, Canadian actor; in Toronto, Ontario, Canada{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/stephan_james |title=Stephan James |website=Rotten Tomatoes |publisher=Fandango |access-date=15 October 2021}}
Died:
Charizma (born Charles Edward Hicks Jr.), 20, American MC, murdered{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/charizma-mn0000200996/biography |last=Brown |first=Marisa |title=Charizma Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & More |publisher=AllMusic, Netaktion LLC |access-date=29 April 2022}}
Moses Gunn, 64, American actor, complications of asthma{{cite news |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1993/12/20/Actor-Moses-Gunn-dead-at-64/2049756363600/ |title=Actor Moses Gunn dead at 64 |date=20 December 1993 |publisher=UPI |access-date=15 October 2021}}{{cite web |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/moses-gunn-43304 |title=Moses Gunn - Broadway Cast & Staff |work=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=15 October 2021}}
Charles Moore, 68, American architect, heart attack{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/17/obituaries/charles-moore-innovative-post-modern-architect-is-dead-at-68.html |last=Muschamp |first=Herbert |author-link=Herbert Muschamp |title=Charles Moore, Innovative Post-Modern Architect, Is Dead at 68 |journal=The New York Times |date=17 December 1993 |page=B13 |access-date=15 October 2021}}{{cite web |url=https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utaaa/00132/aaa-00132.html |title=The Charles W. Moore Archives |website=Texas Archival Resources Online |access-date=15 October 2021}}
Kakuei Tanaka, 75, Japanese politician, 40th Prime Minister of Japan, pneumonia{{cite news |last=Sterngold |first=James |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/17/obituaries/kakuei-tanaka-75-ex-premier-and-political-force-in-japan-dies.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm |title=Kakuei Tanaka, 75, Ex-Premier and Political Force in Japan, Dies |date=17 December 1993 |journal=The New York Times |access-date=15 October 2021}}

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.{{cite news |last=Brooke |first=James |author-link=James Brooke (journalist) |title=Brazilian Court Reaffirms Ban on the Ex-President |journal=The New York Times |date=17 December 1993 |page=A9 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/17/world/brazilian-court-reaffirms-ban-on-the-ex-president.html |access-date=16 October 2021}}
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.{{cite news |url=https://www.the-dispatch.com/photogallery/NC/20191217/NEWS/121709999/PH/1 |title=Photos: This date in history, Dec. 17 |journal=The Dispatch |location=Lexington, North Carolina |date=17 December 2019 |publisher=Gannett Co., Inc. |access-date=24 October 2021}}
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.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/years/1993-bowls.html |title=1993 Bowl Games |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |access-date=18 October 2021}}
Born:
Kiersey Clemons, American actress and singer; in Los Angeles, California{{cite web |title=Kiersey Clemons |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/kiersey_clemons |website=Rotten Tomatoes |publisher=Fandango |access-date=15 October 2021}}
Patricia Kú Flores, Peruvian tennis player; in Lima, Peru{{cite web |title=PATRICIA KU FLORES |website=Billie Jean King Cup |department=Players |url=https://www.billiejeankingcup.com/en/players/player.aspx?id=800157699 |publisher=ITF Licensing (UK) Ltd. |access-date=15 April 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211202121823/https://www.billiejeankingcup.com/en/players/player.aspx?id=800157699 |archive-date=2 December 2021}}
Cailin Russo, American model and musician; in San Diego, California{{cite magazine |author=((Locale Editors)) |title=Cailin Russo Shows Us What To Wear This Season |magazine=Locale Magazine |url=https://localemagazine.com/cailin-russo/ |date=18 July 2014 |access-date=15 October 2021}}
Died:
Bobby Davidson, 65, Scottish football referee{{cite web |url=https://eu-football.info/_referee.php?id=519 |title=Bobby Davidson, international football referee |website=eu-football.info |access-date=29 April 2022}}
Janet Margolin, 50, American actress, ovarian cancer{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/18/obituaries/janet-margolin-film-and-tv-actress-50.html |title=Janet Margolin, Film And TV Actress, 50 |journal=The New York Times |date=18 December 1993 |access-date=15 October 2021}}

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.{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/30550670/ncaa-division-i-aa-championship/ |title=NCAA Division I-AA Championship |journal=The Newark Advocate |date=19 December 1993 |page=10 |access-date=18 October 2021 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{cite web |title=The 1993 National Champions |url=https://www.ysusports.com/fan_zone/traditions/1993champs |publisher=Youngstown State University |access-date=18 October 2021}}
The MGM Grand Las Vegas hotel and casino opened in Paradise, Nevada.{{cite web |title=Frequently Asked Questions |url=https://www.mgmresorts.com/en/faq.html#/what-year-was-the-mgm-grand-built |publisher=MGM Resorts International |access-date=20 October 2021}}
Born:
Anton McKee, Icelandic Olympic swimmer; in Reykjavík, Iceland{{cite web |url=http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/126368 |title=Anton McKee |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=18 October 2021}}
Byron Buxton, American Major League Baseball center fielder; in Baxley, Georgia{{cite web |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/buxtoby01.shtml |title=Byron Buxton Stats |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |access-date=20 October 2021}}
Kerri Gowler, New Zealand Olympic champion rower; in Raetihi, Manawatū-Whanganui, New Zealand{{cite web |url=http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/131320 |title=Kerri Gowler |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=19 October 2021}}
Thomas Lam, Finnish-Dutch footballer; in Amsterdam, Netherlands{{NFT player|59403|Thomas Lam|access-date=20 October 2021}}
Ana Porgras, Romanian artistic gymnast; in Galați, Romania{{cite web |title=Ana Porgras Online |website=Official Website Ana Porgras |url=http://www.anaporgras.ro/english/index2.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120315133516/http://www.anaporgras.ro/english/index2.php |archive-date=15 March 2012 |access-date=15 October 2021}}
Riria Kojima (born Riria Baba), Japanese actress; in Tokyo, Japan{{cite web |title=馬場梨里杏（ばばりりあ）|trans-title=Baba Riria |url=http://www.kirinpro.co.jp/cgi/list/girls.cgi?id=1084&mode=show |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517213603/http://www.kirinpro.co.jp/cgi/list/girls.cgi?id=1084&mode=show |archive-date=17 May 2008 |year=2005 |publisher=KIRIN PRO LTD. |language=ja |access-date=15 October 2021}}
Souliya Syphasay, Laotian footballer; in Vientiane, Laos{{Soccerway|id=159298|name=S. Siphasay|access-date=4 May 2022}}
Died:
Georges Bégué, 82, French engineer and Special Operations Executive agent{{cite web |url=http://www.campx.ca/georgesbegue.html |title=Georges Bégué SOE F-Section |website=campx.ca |access-date=18 October 2021}}
Helm Glöckler, 84, German amateur racing driver{{cite web |title=Helm Glockler |date=13 December 2015 |url=https://www.oldracingcars.com/driver/Helm_Glockler |website=OldRacingCars.com |publisher=Allen Brown |access-date=20 October 2021}}
Sam Wanamaker, {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|commas=on|CBEh}} (born Samuel Wattenmacker), 74, American film director and actor, prostate cancer{{cite web |title=Sam Wanamaker |url=http://www.shakespeares-globe.org/information/abouttheglobe/samwanamaker/ |website=Shakespeare's Globe |year=2008 |publisher=The Shakespeare Globe Trust |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080807125148/http://www.shakespeares-globe.org/information/abouttheglobe/samwanamaker/ |archive-date=7 August 2008 |access-date=15 October 2021}}

December 19, 1993 (Sunday)

Lansana Conté was confirmed in office in the 1993 Guinean presidential election with 51.71% of the vote.{{cite web |title=Guinea Detailed Election Results |work=African Elections Database |access-date=20 October 2021 |url=https://africanelections.tripod.com/gn_detail.html#1993_Presidential_Election}}
Born:
Ali Adnan Kadhim, Iraqi professional and Olympic footballer; in Baghdad, Iraq{{cite web |title=Ali Adnan |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/134544 |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=3 November 2021}}
Alkaline (born Earlan Bartley), Jamaican dancehall and reggae musician; in Kingston, Jamaica{{cite web |url=https://www.reggaeville.com/artist-details/alkaline/about/ |title=Biography: Alkaline |publisher=reggaeville.com |access-date=3 November 2021}}
Leonardo Bittencourt, German footballer; in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany{{cite web |title=Leonardo Bittencourt |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/1006258 |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=3 November 2021}}
Hermione Corfield, English actress; in London, England{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/hermione_corfield |title=Hermione Corfield |website=Rotten Tomatoes |publisher=Fandango |access-date=19 October 2021}}
Isiah Koech, Kenyan Olympic long-distance runner; in Keringet, Kenya{{cite web |title=Isiah Koech |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/124003 |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=20 October 2021}}
José Leclerc, Dominican Major League Baseball relief pitcher; in Esperanza, Dominican Republic{{cite web |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/leclejo01.shtml |title=Jose Leclerc Stats |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |access-date=3 November 2021}}
Christopher Rühr, German Olympic field hockey player; in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany{{cite web |title=Christopher Rühr |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/134197 |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=3 November 2021}}
Stephanie Venier, Austrian Olympic alpine skier; in Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria{{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/136701 |title=Stephanie Venier |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=3 November 2021}}
Died: Michael Clarke, 47, American musician (The Byrds), liver failure{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-12-21-mn-4004-story.html |title=Obituaries : Michael Clarke; Drummer With the Byrds Rock Group |journal=Los Angeles Times |date=21 December 1993 |access-date=15 October 2021}}

December 20, 1993 (Monday)

The United Nations General Assembly voted to appoint a U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights.{{cite web |title=Brief history |publisher=OHCHR |url=https://www.ohchr.org/EN/ABOUTUS/Pages/BriefHistory.aspx |access-date=15 October 2021}}
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.{{cite book |url=https://shorensteincenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/2002_07_storin.pdf |last=Storin |first=Matthew V. |author-link=Matthew V. Storin |title=While America Slept: Coverage of Terrorism from 1993 to September 11, 2001 |series=The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy Working Paper Series |year=2002 |publisher=President and Fellows of Harvard College |pages=7–8 |access-date=24 October 2021}}
17 teenagers died in a fire at the Kheyvis nightclub in Olivos, Buenos Aires, Argentina.{{cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zeQoDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA354 |last=Kreckie |first=Jack |chapter=Integrating SMS into Emergency Planning and Incident Command |title=Implementing Safety Management Systems in Aviation |editor1-last=Stolzer |editor1-first=Alan J. |editor2-last=Halford |editor2-first=Carl D. |editor3-last=Goglia |editor3-first=John J. |series=Ashgate Studies in Human Factors for Flight Operations |location=London and New York City |year=2016 |publisher=Routledge |page=354 |isbn=978-1-3155-8798-1 |access-date=18 October 2021 |via=Google Books}}
The Hubble Space Telescope took its first corrected images.{{Citation needed|date=October 2021}}
Born:
Ali Abdi, Tunisian footballer; in Sfax, Tunisia{{Soccerway|id=223160|name=A. Abdi|access-date=4 May 2022}}
Andrea Belotti, Italian footballer; in Calcinate, Italy{{NFT player|65023|Andrea Belotti|access-date=15 October 2021}}
Yana Egorian, Russian Olympic champion sabre fencer; in Yerevan, Armenia{{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/131575 |title=Yana Yegoryan |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=15 October 2021}}
Robeisy Ramírez, Cuban Olympic champion and professional boxer; in Cienfuegos, Cuba{{cite web |url=http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/123508 |title=Robeisy Ramírez |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=20 October 2021}}
Died:
Gussie Nell Davis, 87, American educator and founder of the Kilgore College Rangerettes{{cite book |last=Stanley |first=Jeanie R. |chapter=Davis, Gussie Nell (1906–1993) |title=Handbook of Texas |chapter-url=https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/davis-gussie-nell |date=9 September 2020 |publisher=Texas State Historical Association |access-date=15 October 2021}}
W. Edwards Deming, 93, American engineer, professor, author, lecturer, and management consultant; cancer{{cite news |last=Holusha |first=John |title=W. Edwards Deming, Expert on Business Management, Dies at 93 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/21/obituaries/w-edwards-deming-expert-on-business-management-dies-at-93.html |journal=The New York Times |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514135228/http://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/21/obituaries/w-edwards-deming-expert-on-business-management-dies-at-93.html |archive-date=14 May 2011 |date=21 December 1993 |access-date=15 October 2021}}
Nazife Güran, 72, Turkish composer{{cite web |url=https://musicalics.com/en/composer/Nazife-G%C3%BCran |last=Giraudet |first=Jean-Paul |title=Nazife Güran |work=The Classical Composers Database |date=7 February 2016 |publisher=Musicalics |access-date=20 October 2021}}
Iichirō Hatoyama, 75, Japanese politician and diplomat{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/20/obituaries/iichiro-hatoyama-ex-foreign-minister-75.html |title=Iichiro Hatoyama; Ex-Foreign Minister, 75 |journal=The New York Times |agency=Reuters |date=20 December 1993 |access-date=18 October 2021}}

December 21, 1993 (Tuesday)

The Hungarian Parliament elected Péter Boross Prime Minister of Hungary following the death of József Antall on December 12.{{cite web |title=Dr. Boross Péter |website=Magyar Demokrata Fórum 2006 |language=hu |url=http://part.mdf.hu/index.php?akt_menu=881&amn=ftag&ft=boross&PHPSESSID=3bfd40ca307dbaa414ea0c442e58de0f |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060603172445/http://part.mdf.hu/index.php?akt_menu=881&amn=ftag&ft=boross&PHPSESSID=3bfd40ca307dbaa414ea0c442e58de0f |archive-date=3 June 2006 |access-date=15 October 2021}}
The United States Department of Defense issued the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy under Directive 1304.26.{{cite web |url=https://biotech.law.lsu.edu/blaw/dodd/corres/html2/d130426x.htm |title=DODD 1304.26, Dec. 21, 1993 |date=21 December 1993 |access-date=3 November 2021 |via=Paul M. Hebert Law Center}}
Born:
Cody Ceci, Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman; in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada{{cite web |url=https://www.hockey-reference.com/players/c/cecico01.html |title=Cody Ceci Stats |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |access-date=3 November 2021}}
Alex Iafallo, American professional ice hockey forward; in Eden, New York{{cite web |url=https://www.hockey-reference.com/players/i/iafalal01.html |title=Alex Iafallo Stats |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |access-date=3 November 2021}}
Uvaldo Luna, Mexican footballer; in Channelview, Greater Houston, Texas{{Soccerway|id=281898|name=U. Luna|access-date=4 May 2022}}
Malcolm Subban, Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender; in Toronto, Ontario, Canada{{cite web |url=https://www.hockey-reference.com/players/s/subbama01.html |title=Malcolm Subban Stats |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |access-date=3 November 2021}}
Died:
Guy des Cars, 82, French novelist{{cite news |last=Kirkup |first=James |author-link=James Kirkup |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-guy-des-cars-1469612.html |title=Obituary: Guy des Cars |journal=The Independent |department=People |date=28 December 1993 |access-date=3 November 2021}} This source gives des Cars' date of death as December 20, 1993.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/22/obituaries/guy-des-cars-82-dies-popular-french-writer.html |title=Guy des Cars, 82, Dies; Popular French Writer |journal=The New York Times |agency=Reuters |date=22 December 1993 |page=B8 |access-date=3 November 2021}} This source gives des Cars' date of death as December 22, 1993.{{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb11899727p |title=Notice de personne "Des Cars, Guy (1911-1993)" |trans-title=Person record "Des Cars, Guy (1911-1993)" |work=Catalogue général |language=fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |date=1 October 2008 |access-date=3 November 2021}}
Sir Philip Christison, {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|GBE|CB|DSO|MC1}}, 100, British Army officer{{cite web |url=https://www.unithistories.com/officers/Army_officers_C01.html#Christison_AFP |title=British Army Officers 1939-1945 |access-date=3 November 2021}}
Zack Mosley, 87, American comics artist{{cite encyclopedia |title=Zack Mosley |date=7 July 2018 |encyclopedia=Lambiek Comiclopedia |publisher=Lambiek |url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/m/mosley_z.htm |access-date=2 November 2021}}
Pekka Niemi, 84, Finnish Olympic cross-country skier{{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/95828 |title=Pekka Niemi |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=3 November 2021}}
Margarita Nikolaeva, 58, Soviet Olympic champion gymnast{{cite web |title=Margarita Nikolayeva |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/29206 |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=3 November 2021}}

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.{{cite web |url=http://www.sudbih.gov.ba/vijest/potvrena-optunica-u-predmetu-ibrahim-puri-i-dr-21038 |title=Potvrđena optužnica u predmetu Ibrahim Purić i dr. |trans-title=Indictment confirmed in the case of Ibrahim Purić et al. |date=27 February 2019 |publisher=Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina |language=hr |access-date=18 October 2021 |archive-date=21 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220121154512/http://www.sudbih.gov.ba/vijest/potvrena-optunica-u-predmetu-ibrahim-puri-i-dr-21038 |url-status=dead }}
The Republican Party of Texas rejected Dallas preacher James Bridges' application to run in the Republican gubernatorial primary for the 1994 Texas gubernatorial election because the check for the $3,000 filing fee bounced. On the same day, Bridges' church burned down.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=861&dat=19931224&id=2ChSAAAAIBAJ&pg=3973,1311126 |title=Dallas preacher has tough day |agency=AP |journal=The Victoria Advocate |date=24 December 1993 |page=2A |access-date=25 October 2021 |via=Google News}}
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.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=861&dat=19931224&id=2ChSAAAAIBAJ&pg=3973,1311126 |title=Driven from malls by threats, Santa finds refuge with police |agency=AP |journal=The Victoria Advocate |date=24 December 1993 |page=14A |access-date=25 October 2021 |via=Google News}}
Pop singer Michael Jackson made his first public statement regarding the child molestation allegations leveled against him. In a videotaped address, Jackson called the accusations "totally false" and asked the public to "wait to hear the truth before you label or condemn me."
Born:
Fazly Mazlan (born Muhammad Fazly bin Mazlan), Malaysian footballer; in Muar District, Johor, Malaysia{{Soccerway|id=188952|name=Fazly Mazlan|access-date=4 May 2022}}
Raphaël Guerreiro, Portuguese footballer; in Le Blanc-Mesnil, France{{NFT player|57685|Raphaël Guerreiro|access-date=15 October 2021}}
David Klemmer, Australian rugby league footballer; in Sydney, Australia{{cite web |url=https://www.newcastleknights.com.au/teams/telstra-premiership/newcastle-knights/david-klemmer/ |title=Official NRL profile of David Klemmer for Newcastle Knights |website=Newcastle Knights |publisher=National Rugby League |access-date=17 October 2021 |archive-date=17 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211017083027/https://www.newcastleknights.com.au/teams/telstra-premiership/newcastle-knights/david-klemmer/ |url-status=dead }}
Aliana Lohan, American actress, model, and singer; in Cold Spring Harbor, New York{{cite web |url=http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/ali-lohan/294282/ |title=Ali Lohan Actor, Singer |website=TVGuide.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208014728/http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/ali-lohan/294282/ |archive-date=8 December 2015 |publisher=CBS Interactive Inc. |access-date=15 October 2021}}
Gabriel Medina (born Gabriel Medina Pinto Ferreira), Brazilian professional surfer; in São Sebastião, São Paulo, Brazil{{cite web |url=https://www.worldsurfleague.com/athletes/1085/gabriel-medina |title=Gabriel Medina Surfer Bio | Age, Height, Videos & Results |publisher=World Surf League |access-date=20 October 2021}}
Hedvig Rasmussen, Danish Olympic rower; in Frederiksberg, Denmark{{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/129876 |title=Lærke Berg Rasmussen |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=17 October 2021}}
Meghan Trainor, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer; in Nantucket, Massachusetts{{cite magazine |last=Robehmed |first=Natalie |title=30 Under 30: Eight Questions With Meghan Trainor |magazine=Forbes |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/natalierobehmed/2015/01/05/30-under-30-eight-questions-with-meghan-trainor/ |date=5 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181031175007/https://www.forbes.com/sites/natalierobehmed/2015/01/05/30-under-30-eight-questions-with-meghan-trainor/ |archive-date=31 October 2018 |access-date=15 October 2021}}
Died:
Sylvia Bataille (born Sylvia Maklès), 85, French actress, cardiac arrest{{cite thesis |last=Hunt |first=Jamer Kennedy |title=Absence to Presence: The Life History of Sylvia [Bataille] Lacan (France). |date=April 1995 |publisher=Rice University |url=https://hdl.handle.net/1911/16832 |pages=ii, 105, 107, 188-191 |hdl=1911/16832 |access-date=18 October 2021 |type=Thesis |via=Rice Digital Scholarship Archive}}{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://cinema.encyclopedie.personnalites.bifi.fr/index.php?pk=47160 |title=Sylvia Bataille |encyclopedia=Cinémathèque française |language=fr |access-date=18 October 2021}}
Marion Burns, 86, American actress{{cite web |url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/p9715 |last=Wollstein |first=Hans J. |title=Marion Burns | Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos |publisher=AllMovie, Netaktion LLC |access-date=3 November 2021}}
Don DeFore, 80, American actor, cardiac arrest{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=861&dat=19931224&id=2ChSAAAAIBAJ&pg=3973,1311126 |title=Jovial actor Don DeFore dies at 80 |agency=L.A. Times/Washington Post |journal=The Victoria Advocate |date=24 December 1993 |page=14A |access-date=25 October 2021 |via=Google News}}
Alexander Mackendrick, 81, British-American film director, pneumonia{{cite journal |url=http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2003/great-directors/mackendrick/ |last=Garrido |first=Monica |title=Mackendrick, Alexander |journal=Senses of Cinema |date=October 2003 |department=Great Directors |issue=28 |access-date=15 October 2021}}{{cite web |last=Kuhn |first=Annette |author-link=Annette Kuhn |url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/447947/ |title=Mackendrick, Alexander |publisher=BFI Screenonline |access-date=15 October 2021}}
Salah Zulfikar, 67, Egyptian actor and film producer, heart attack{{cite news |title=Adel Imam's position .. The story of the death of Salah Zulfikar before filming the scene |url=https://www.newsy-today.com/adel-imams-position-the-story-of-the-death-of-salah-zulfikar-before-filming-the-scene/ |website=Newsy Today |date=20 January 2021 |access-date=15 October 2021}}

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.{{cite web |url=https://providenceintl.org/en/search-requests/three-great-providence-women/blessed-emilie-gamelin/cause-for-the-canonization-of-emilie-tavernier-gamelin/ |title=Cause for the canonization of Emilie Tavernier Gamelin |website=Soeurs de la Providence |access-date=20 October 2021}}
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.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=861&dat=19931224&id=2ChSAAAAIBAJ&pg=3973,1311126 |title=President to release files on S&L deal |agency=AP |journal=The Victoria Advocate |date=24 December 1993 |pages=1D–2D |access-date=25 October 2021 |via=Google News}}
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.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=861&dat=19931224&id=2ChSAAAAIBAJ&pg=3973,1311126 |title=Kentucky couple released after five years |agency=AP |journal=The Victoria Advocate |date=24 December 1993 |page=9A |access-date=25 October 2021 |via=Google News}}{{cite web |url=https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=3393 |last=Possley |first=Maurice |title=Debbie Loveless |work=The National Registry of Exonerations |publisher=University of California Irvine Newkirk Center for Science & Society, University of Michigan Law School & Michigan State University College of Law |date=11 February 2015 |access-date=24 October 2021}} 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.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=861&dat=19931224&id=2ChSAAAAIBAJ&pg=3973,1311126 |title=Aikman agrees on $50 million, 8-year contract |agency=AP |journal=The Victoria Advocate |date=24 December 1993 |pages=1B–2B |access-date=25 October 2021 |via=Google News}}
Born:
Claudio Baeza, Chilean footballer; in Los Ángeles, Chile{{NFT player|75345|Claudio Baeza|access-date=3 November 2021}}
Felix Großschartner, Austrian cyclist; in Wels, Austria{{cite web |title=Felix Großschartner |url=https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/141131 |website=ProCyclingStats |access-date=3 November 2021}}
Ruriko Kojima, Japanese gravure idol and sportscaster; in Ichihara, Chiba, Japan{{cite web |url=https://www.horipro.co.jp/kojimaruriko/ |script-title=ja:小島瑠璃子 (コジマルリコ) |trans-title=Ruriko Kojima (Kojima Riko) |publisher=HoriPro Inc. |language=ja |access-date=19 October 2021 |archive-date=19 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211019045005/https://www.horipro.co.jp/kojimaruriko/ |url-status=dead }}
Riho Otake, Japanese volleyball player; in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan{{cite web |url=http://www.fivb.org/EN/volleyball/competitions/WorldGrandPrix/2013/Players.asp?Tourn=WGP2013&Team=JPN&No=133107 |title=Player's biography |website=FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix 2013 |access-date=3 November 2021}}
Emmanuel Stockbroekx, Belgian Olympic field hockey player; in Brasschaat, Belgium{{cite web |url=http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/132681 |title=Emmanuel Stockbroekx |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=3 November 2021}}
Nicolae Tanovițchii, Moldovan professional racing cyclist; in Chișinău, Moldova{{cite web |url=https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/141196 |title=Nicolae Tanovițchii |website=ProCyclingStats |access-date=3 November 2021}}
Jasmine Todd, American track and field athlete; in San Diego, California{{cite web |title=Jasmine TODD | Profile |url=https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/_/14375278 |publisher=World Athletics |access-date=3 November 2021}}
Delano Williams, British Olympic sprinter; in Grand Turk Island, Turks and Caicos Islands{{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/133968 |title=Delano Williams |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=3 November 2021}}
Died:
Gertrude Blom, 92, Swiss journalist, social anthropologist and documentary photographer{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/29/obituaries/gertrude-blom-92-long-a-chronicler-of-mayan-cultures.html |title=Gertrude Blom, 92, Long a Chronicler Of Mayan Cultures |journal=The New York Times |date=29 December 1993 |page=D19 |access-date=3 November 2021}}
James Ellison (born James Ellison Smith), 83, American actor, fall{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-james-ellison-1392155.html |last=Vosburgh |first=Dick |author-link=Dick Vosburgh |title=Obituary: James Ellison |date=22 October 2011 |journal=The Independent |department=People |access-date=15 October 2021}}
Jean Maréchal, 83, French racing cyclist{{cite web |title=Jean Maréchal |website=Cycling Archives |url=http://www.cyclingarchives.com/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=52500 |publisher=de Wielersite |access-date=3 November 2021}}
Marcello Neri, 91, Italian Olympic cyclist{{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/15839 |title=Marcello Neri |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=18 October 2021}}

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.{{cite news |title=Experts to hunt killer crocs |journal=The Straits Times |date=28 December 1993 |page=9 |access-date=21 October 2021 |via=NewspaperSG, Government of Singapore |url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/issue/straitstimes19931228-1}}
Five shoppers were killed and 48 others wounded in a grenade explosion at a market in Misamis Occidental, Philippines.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/27/world/6-killed-and-130-are-wounded-in-blasts-at-philippine-cathedral.html |title=6 Killed and 130 Are Wounded In Blasts at Philippine Cathedral |date=27 December 1993 |agency=Reuters |journal=The New York Times |access-date=13 March 2020}}
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.{{cite news |title=Exploding table kills man |journal=The Straits Times |date=28 December 1993 |page=9 |access-date=21 October 2021 |via=NewspaperSG, Government of Singapore |url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/issue/straitstimes19931228-1}}
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.
Born: Mariya Nishiuchi, Japanese model, actress and singer-songwriter; in Fukuoka, Japan{{cite web |url=https://www.zimbio.com/Mariya+Nishiuchi |title=Mariya Nishiuchi |website=Zimbio |publisher=Livingly Media, Inc. |access-date=19 October 2021}}
Died:
Dorothea Parker, 65, New Zealand sprinter, cancer{{cite news |url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/6858371/Veteran-has-roast-duck-in-his-sights-as-season-starts |last=Twentyman |first=Maryanne |title=Veteran has roast duck in his sights as season starts |date=4 May 2012 |website=Stuff |department=Waikato Times |publisher=Stuff Limited |access-date=19 October 2021}}
Norman Vincent Peale, 95, American preacher and writer, stroke{{cite news |last=Vecsey |first=George |author-link=George Vecsey |title=Norman Vincent Peale, Preacher of Gospel Optimism, Dies at 95 |journal=The New York Times |date=26 December 1993 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/26/obituaries/norman-vincent-peale-preacher-of-gospel-optimism-dies-at-95.html |access-date=15 October 2021}}
Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson, 69, Icelandic Modern Pagan religious leader, heart failure{{cite news |url=https://timarit.is/page/2621657#page/n25/mode/2up |title=Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson |journal=Dagblaðið Vísir |language=is |date=7 January 1994 |page=34 |access-date=18 October 2021 |via=Tímarit.is}}{{cite web |url=http://geocities.com/odinistlibrary/OLArticles/Articles/Sveinbjorn.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091027105907/http://geocities.com/odinistlibrary/OLArticles/Articles/Sveinbjorn.htm |archive-date=27 October 2009 |title=In Memory of Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson |access-date=18 October 2021}}{{Unreliable source?|date=October 2021}}
Yen Chia-kan, 88, Taiwanese politician and 2nd President of the Republic of China{{cite web |url=https://english.president.gov.tw/Page/84 |title=Yen Chia-kan (5th term) |website=Office of the President Republic of China (Taiwan) |department=Presidents since 1947 |access-date=15 October 2021}}

December 25, 1993 (Saturday)

The new Constitution of Russia came into effect upon its publication.
Queen Elizabeth II spoke of the year's progress towards peace in Northern Ireland in her Royal Christmas Message to the United Kingdom.{{cite web |title=Christmas Broadcast 1993 |website=The official website of The British Monarchy |publisher=The Royal Household |url=http://www.royal.gov.uk/ImagesandBroadcasts/TheQueensChristmasBroadcasts/ChristmasBroadcasts/ChristmasBroadcast1993.aspx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150726060248/http://www.royal.gov.uk/ImagesandBroadcasts/TheQueensChristmasBroadcasts/ChristmasBroadcasts/ChristmasBroadcast1993.aspx |archive-date=26 July 2015 |access-date=18 October 2021}}
A 59-year-old woman identified by the press as "Jennifer F." gave birth to twins at a hospital in London, occasioning controversy and comment across Europe.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1817&dat=19931230&id=eDYdAAAAIBAJ&pg=4758,4500388 |last=Salome |first=Louis J. |title=New mom, 59, sparks British debate |agency=Cox News Service |journal=The Tuscaloosa News |date=30 December 1993 |page=6A |access-date=18 October 2021 |via=Google News}}
In the 1993 Aloha Bowl, played at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii, the Colorado Buffaloes defeated the Fresno State Bulldogs by a score of 41–30.
Born:
Leonardo Basso, Italian cyclist; in Castelfranco Veneto, Italy{{cite web |url=https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/161334 |title=Leonardo Basso |website=ProCyclingStats |access-date=18 October 2021}}
Ariadna Gutiérrez, Colombian actress, television host, and model, Miss Colombia 2014; in Sincelejo, Sucre Department, Colombia{{cite web |title=Ariadna Gutiérrez |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/ariadna_gutierrez |website=Rotten Tomatoes |publisher=Fandango |access-date=16 October 2021}}
Emi Takei, Japanese actress, fashion model, and singer; in Nagoya, Japan{{cite web |url=https://www.zimbio.com/Emi+Takei |title=Emi Takei |website=Zimbio |publisher=Livingly Media, Inc. |access-date=16 October 2021}}
Died:
Pierre Victor Auger, 94, French physicist{{cite web |title=Pierre Auger |url=https://www.atomicheritage.org/profile/pierre-auger |year=2019 |publisher=Atomic Heritage Foundation |access-date=16 October 2021}}
Ama Naidoo OLS (born Manonmoney Pillay), 85, South African anti-apartheid activist, heart failure{{cite web |title=Manonmoney "Ama" Naidoo |website=South African History Online |url=https://www.sahistory.org.za/people/manonmoney-ama-naidoo |access-date=20 October 2021}}
Jeff Phillips, 30, American professional skateboarder, suicide by gunshot{{cite news |url=https://www.dansworld.com/guardian.html |title=Hell On Wheels |journal=San Francisco Bay Guardian |date=May 1994 |access-date=19 October 2021 |via=DansWORLD Skateboarding}}
Nikolai Timkov, 81, Soviet Russian painter{{cite web |url=https://www.artsy.net/artwork/nikolai-efimovich-timkov-december-sun |title=Nikolai Efimovich Timkov | December Sun (1964) | Available for Sale |publisher=Artsy |access-date=3 November 2021}}

December 26, 1993 (Sunday)

The 1993 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race began.{{cite news |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1993/12/15/US-maxi-yacht-one-of-early-favorites-for-Sydney-Hobart-race/6490755931600/ |last=Anderson |first=Tom |title=U.S. maxi-yacht one of early favorites for Sydney-Hobart race |publisher=UPI |date=15 December 1993 |access-date=21 October 2021}} It would conclude on January 3, 1994.{{Citation needed|date=October 2021}}
Grenade attacks occurred at the Roman Catholic Davao Cathedral and at a Muslim mosque in Davao City, Philippines. At least six people were killed and more than 130 wounded in the first incident, while there were no casualties in the second one.
Actress Marlene Dietrich's grave in Berlin, Germany, was desecrated and covered with feces the day before what would have been her 92nd birthday.{{cite news |title=Dietrich's grave desecrated |journal=The Straits Times |date=28 December 1993 |page=9 |access-date=21 October 2021 |via=NewspaperSG, Government of Singapore |url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/issue/straitstimes19931228-1}}
Born: Taleni Seu, New Zealand rugby union player; in Auckland, New Zealand{{cite web |url=https://www.chiefs.co.nz/team/team/player-list/player/4-Investec+Super+Rugby+2017/56-Taleni+Seu |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170806192802/https://www.chiefs.co.nz/team/team/player-list/player/4-Investec+Super+Rugby+2017/56-Taleni+Seu |archive-date=6 August 2017 |title=Chiefs 2017 Squad |year=2017 |publisher=The Official Website of the Chiefs - Investec Super Rugby |access-date=19 October 2021}}

December 27, 1993 (Monday)

Israeli soldiers in southern Lebanon, mistaking a United Nations patrol for a guerrilla group, killed one Norwegian soldier and wounded another.{{cite news |title=Israeli troops kill UN peace soldier by mistake |url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/issue/straitstimes19931228-1 |journal=The Straits Times |date=28 December 1993 |page=3 |access-date=21 October 2021 |via=NewspaperSG, Government of Singapore}}
Career criminal Roger Hoan Brady shot and killed Officer Martin L. Ganz of the Manhattan Beach, California Police Department during a traffic stop. Ganz's 12-year-old nephew, who was on a ride-along with him, was unharmed.{{cite web |url=https://www.odmp.org/officer/594-officer-martin-l-ganz |title=Officer Martin L. Ganz, Manhattan Beach Police Department, California |publisher=The Officer Down Memorial Page, Inc |access-date=17 October 2021}}{{cite web |url=http://bcmcmustang.homestead.com/GanzTribute.html |title=Martin Ganz Memorial Webpage |access-date=19 October 2021}}{{cite news |url=https://www.dailybreeze.com/2018/12/26/25-years-later-manhattan-beach-police-remember-martin-ganz-its-only-officer-murdered-in-the-history-of-the-department/ |last=Farmer |first=Kirsten |title=25 years later, Manhattan Beach police remember Martin Ganz, its only officer to be gunned down in the line of duty |journal=Daily Breeze |department=Local News |date=26 December 2018 |access-date=19 October 2021}}
Ted Turner was named the most powerful man in sports according to The Sporting News.
Born: Olivia Cooke, English actress; in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England{{cite web |url=https://www.tvinsider.com/people/olivia-cooke/ |title=Olivia Cooke - Actress |website=TV Insider |publisher=NTVB Media, Inc. |access-date=16 October 2021}}
Died:
Michael Callen, 38, American singer, composer, author and AIDS activist; AIDS-related complications of pulmonary Kaposi's sarcoma{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/29/obituaries/michael-callen-singer-and-expert-on-coping-with-aids-dies-at-38.html?mtrref=www.nytimes.com |last=Dunlap |first=David W. |author-link=David W. Dunlap |title=Michael Callen, Singer and Expert On Coping With AIDS, Dies at 38 |journal=The New York Times |date=29 December 1993 |access-date=20 October 2021}}
Feliks Kibbermann, 91, Estonian chess master and philologist{{cite web |title=Kibbermann, Feliks |url=http://www.esbl.ee/biograafia/Feliks_Kibbermann |website=ESBL |date=22 October 2017 |publisher=Spordikoolituse ja -Teabe Sihtasutus |language=et |access-date=20 October 2021}}
Evald Mikson, 82, Estonian footballer, police officer and war criminal{{NFT player|47106|Evald Mikson|access-date=20 October 2021}}{{cite web |url=http://www.wiesenthal.com/site/apps/s/content.asp?c=lsKWLbPJLnF&b=4442915&ct=5853153 |title=WIESENTHAL CENTER WELCOMES ESTONIAN HISTORICAL COMMISSION FINDINGS WHICH CONFIRM HOLOCAUST CRIMES OF EVALD MIKSON |publisher=Simon Wiesenthal Center |date=21 June 2001 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180214202816/http://www.wiesenthal.com/site/apps/s/content.asp?c=lsKWLbPJLnF&b=4442915&ct=5853153 |archive-date=14 February 2018 |access-date=20 October 2021}}
André Pilette, 75, Belgian racing driver{{cite web |url=https://www.oldracingcars.com/driver/Andre_Pilette |title=Andre Pilette |website=OldRacingCars.com |date=14 June 2015 |publisher=Allen Brown |access-date=18 October 2021}}

December 28, 1993 (Tuesday)

In New York state, four out of six parcel bombs sent to family members of Brenda Lazore, the ex-girlfriend of Michael Stevens, exploded, killing five people. Lazore's mother, stepfather and sister, a coworker of her stepfather and a friend of her sister were all killed; her uncle was injured. Two other bombs sent to family members were intercepted by police. Stevens and his friend Earl Figley would be charged in the bombings on December 29.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1817&dat=19931230&id=eDYdAAAAIBAJ&pg=4758,4500388 |last=Affleck |first=John |title=Pair jailed in revenge bombings fatal to 5 |journal=The Tuscaloosa News |agency=The Associated Press |date=30 December 1993 |pages=1A, 4A |access-date=18 October 2021 |via=Google News}}
In the 1993 Liberty Bowl, played at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium in Memphis, Tennessee, the Louisville Cardinals defeated the Michigan State Spartans by a score of 18–7.
In Williamson County, Tennessee, American country singer-songwriter Billy Ray Cyrus married Leticia Jean Finley, the mother of his 1-year-old daughter, Destiny Hope Cyrus (later known as Miley Cyrus).{{cite web |url=http://www.eonline.com/static/news/pdf/BillyRayCyrusDivorce1.pdf |title=Temporary Restraining Order |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924143227/http://www.eonline.com/static/news/pdf/BillyRayCyrusDivorce1.pdf |archive-date=24 September 2015 |date=13 June 2013 |access-date=19 October 2021 |via=eonline.com}}
Canadian singer and songwriter Shania Twain married South African record producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange.{{cite news |url=http://www.cmt.com/news/1587557/shania-twain-mutt-lange-separating-after-14-years/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150127033124/http://www.cmt.com/news/1587557/shania-twain-mutt-lange-separating-after-14-years/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 27, 2015 |last=Shelburne |first=Craig |title=Shania Twain, Mutt Lange Separating After 14 Years |website=CMT News |department=Music |date=15 May 2008 |publisher=Country Music Television, Inc. |access-date=21 October 2021}} They would divorce in 2010.{{cite magazine |url=https://people.com/celebrity/shania-twain-is-officially-divorced-and-radiantly-happy/ |last=Dam |first=Julie |title=Shania Twain Is Officially Divorced – and 'Radiantly Happy' |magazine=People |department=Celebrity |date=9 June 2010 |publisher=Meredith Corporation |access-date=21 October 2021}}
Born: Yua Shinkawa, Japanese actress and model; in Saitama Prefecture, Japan{{cite news |url=https://mdpr.jp/news/detail/1484520 |title=「Seventeen」卒業の新川優愛、モデル・女優としての活動を振り返る＜プロフィール・略歴＞ |trans-title=Yuai Shinkawa, graduating from "Seventeen", looks back on her work as a model and actress |date=1 May 2015 |website=Model Press |publisher=Netnative Inc. |language=ja |access-date=19 October 2021}}
Died:
Alfonso Balcázar, 67, Spanish screenwriter, film director and producer{{cite web |url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/p172537 |last=Brennan |first=Sandra |title=Alfonso Balcázar | Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos |publisher=AllMovie, Netaktion LLC |access-date=20 October 2021}}
Howard Caine (born Howard Cohen), 65 or 67, American actor, heart attack{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1817&dat=19931230&id=eDYdAAAAIBAJ&pg=4758,4500388 |title=Actor Howard Caine dies of heart attack at 67 |journal=The Tuscaloosa News |agency=The Associated Press |date=30 December 1993 |page=4A |access-date=18 October 2021 |via=Google News}}{{cite web |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/howard-caine-79047 |title=Howard Caine - Broadway Cast & Staff |work=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=10 June 2022}}
John Kemp, 53, New Zealand footballer and cricketer{{cite web |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/john-kemp-37552 |title=John Kemp profile and biography, stats, records, averages, photos and videos |website=ESPNcricinfo |publisher=ESPN Sports Media Ltd. |access-date=19 October 2021}}
William L. Shirer, 89, American journalist and historian{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/29/obituaries/william-l-shirer-author-is-dead-at-89.html?pagewanted=all |last=Mitgang |first=Herbert |author-link=Herbert Mitgang |title=William L. Shirer, Author, Is Dead at 89 |journal=The New York Times |date=29 December 1993 |access-date=16 October 2021}}

December 29, 1993 (Wednesday)

Japanese climber Yasuko Namba summitted the Vinson Massif, the tallest mountain in Antarctica, as part of her attempt to climb all Seven Summits.{{cite book |last=Monteath |first=Colin |author-link=Colin Monteath |title=Hall & Ball: Kiwi Mountaineers : from Mount Cook to Everest |year=1997 |publisher=Cloudcap |page=138 |via=Google Books |isbn=9780938567424 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C9-BAAAAMAAJ&q=Yasuko+Namba+29+December+1993 |access-date=21 October 2021}} She would die in the 1996 Mount Everest disaster.{{cite web |title=Storm Over Everest: Remembering Those Who Died |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/everest/etc/remembering.html |website=PBS |department=FRONTLINE |publisher=WGBH educational foundation |access-date=21 October 2021}}

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The Big Buddha, a {{convert|112|foot|adj=on}} tall bronze statue, was dedicated on Lantau Island in Hong Kong. At that time it was the largest outdoor bronze Buddha statue in the world.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1817&dat=19931230&id=eDYdAAAAIBAJ&pg=4758,4500388 |title=Big Buddha |journal=The Tuscaloosa News |agency=The Associated Press |date=30 December 1993 |page=6A |access-date=19 October 2021 |via=Google News}}
31-year-old French footballer Pierre Bianconi, a Corsican nationalist, disappeared. His car was found at the port of Bastia, Corsica.{{cite news |title=Pierre Bianconi, la disparition inexplicable de footballeur corse |trans-title=Pierre Bianconi, the inexplicable disappearance of the Corsican footballer |journal=L'Équipe |url=https://www.lequipe.fr/Medias/Actualites/Pierre-bianconi-la-disparition-inexplicable-du-footballeur-corse/607260 |department=Enquête |language=fr |date=12 November 2015 |access-date=15 October 2021}}
The Irish Republican Army released a New Year's message making no mention of a ceasefire, indicating uncertainty about the Downing Street Declaration issued on December 15.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1817&dat=19931230&id=eDYdAAAAIBAJ&pg=4758,4500388 |title=IRA undecided about cease-fire |department=World |journal=The Tuscaloosa News |date=30 December 1993 |page=2A |access-date=19 October 2021 |via=Google News}}
Alberto Fujimori, the President of Peru, signed the new Constitution of Peru in Lima.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1817&dat=19931230&id=eDYdAAAAIBAJ&pg=4758,4500388 |title=Peru gets new constitution |department=World |journal=The Tuscaloosa News |date=30 December 1993 |page=2A |access-date=19 October 2021 |via=Google News}}
9-year-old Joey Jacobs of Chester Township, Geauga County, Ohio, lost both ears while holding off a Rottweiler attacking two younger children. The dog had run over a buried-wire fence produced by Invisible Fence Inc. to attack them.{{cite news |url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19970617/2545024/boy-who-was-mauled-saving-friends-now-faces-cruel-taunts |date=17 June 1997 |last=Shultz |first=Connie |title=Boy Who Was Mauled Saving Friends Now Faces Cruel Taunts |newspaper=The Seattle Times |access-date=12 April 2025}}{{cite news |last=Forest |first=Dylan |title=INVISIBLE FENCE CO. SUED |url=https://newspaper.animalpeopleforum.org/1998/06/01/invisible-fence-co-sued/ |date=1 June 1998 |journal=Animal People News |access-date=23 October 2021}}{{cite web |url=https://www.animals24-7.org/2021/09/06/why-rottweilers-are-as-deadly-as-pit-bulls/ |last=Clifton |first=Merritt |title=Why Rottweilers are as deadly as pit bulls (2021 update) |date=6 September 2021 |publisher=Animals 24-7 |access-date=23 October 2021}}
In the 1993 Copper Bowl, played at Arizona Stadium in Tucson, Arizona, the Kansas State Wildcats defeated the Wyoming Cowboys by a score of 52–17.
Born:
Travis Head, Australian international cricketer; in Adelaide, South Australia{{cite web |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/travis-head-530011 |title=Travis Head profile and biography, stats, records, averages, photos and videos |website=ESPNcricinfo |publisher=ESPN Sports Media Ltd. |access-date=20 October 2021}}
Gabby May, Canadian artistic gymnast; in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada{{cite web |url=https://uicflames.com/sports/womens-gymnastics/roster/gabrielle-may/2154 |title=Gabriele May - Women's Gymnastics |publisher=University of Illinois Chicago Athletics |year=2020 |access-date=17 October 2021}}
Died:
Marie Kean, 75, Irish actress{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.ie/regionals/fingalindependent/lifestyle/rush-actress-was-one-of-our-biggest-film-stars-27769587.html |title=Rush actress was one of our biggest film stars |date=1 July 2005 |journal=Independent.ie |access-date=18 October 2021}}
Frunzik Mkrtchyan, 63, Armenian stage and film actor{{cite web |url=https://www.peoples.ru/art/cinema/actor/mkrchyan/ |title=Фрунзик Мкртчян / Phrunzik Mkrchyan |language=ru |access-date=15 October 2021}}

December 30, 1993 (Thursday)

The Congress Party gained a parliamentary majority in India after the defection of 10 Janata Dal party lawmakers.{{Citation needed|date=October 2021}}
In Jerusalem, representatives of Israel and the Holy See signed the Fundamental Agreement Between the Holy See and the State of Israel, preparing for the establishment of diplomatic relations.{{cite web |url=https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/secretariat_state/archivio/documents/rc_seg-st_19931230_santa-sede-israele_en.html |title=Fundamental Agreement between the Holy See and the State of Israel |date=30 December 1993 |website=vatican.va |access-date=16 October 2021}}{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1817&dat=19931230&id=eDYdAAAAIBAJ&pg=4758,4500388 |title=Israel, Vatican sign accord |agency=The Associated Press |journal=The Tuscaloosa News |date=30 December 1993 |page=3A |access-date=18 October 2021 |via=Google News}}
Three operatives of the Azanian People's Liberation Army opened fire at the Heidelberg Tavern in Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa, killing four students.{{cite web |last=Gurski |first=Phil |title=December 30, 1993: Heidelberg Tavern massacre |department=Today in Terrorism |date=30 December 2019 |url=https://borealisthreatandrisk.com/heidelberg-tavern-massacre-december-30-1993/ |publisher=Borealis Threat & Risk Consulting |access-date=17 October 2021}}
23-year-old British Army soldier Daniel Blinco was shot and killed by an Irish Republican Army sniper during an Army foot patrol in Crossmaglen, County Armagh, Northern Ireland.
Argentina passed a measure allowing President Carlos Menem and all future presidents to run for a second consecutive term. It also shortened presidential terms to four years and removed the requirement for the president to be Roman Catholic.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/30/world/argentine-senate-backs-menem-on-second-term.html |last=Nash |first=Nathaniel C. |author-link=Nathaniel C. Nash |title=Argentine Senate Backs Menem on Second Term |journal=The New York Times |date=30 December 1993 |page=A5 |access-date=16 October 2021}}
In the 1993 Freedom Bowl, played at Anaheim Stadium in Anaheim, California, the USC Trojans defeated the Utah Utes by a score of 28–21.
In the 1993 Holiday Bowl, played at Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego, California, the Ohio State Buckeyes defeated the BYU Cougars, also by a score of 28–21.
Died:
İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil, 84–85, Turkish diplomat and politician{{cite web |url=http://www.biyografi.net/kisiayrinti.asp?kisiid=2344 |title=İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil (1908) |website=biyografi.net |language=tr |access-date=16 October 2021}}{{Unreliable source?|date=October 2021}}
Irving Paul Lazar, 86, American talent agent{{cite news |last=Vosburgh |first=Dick |title=Obituary: Irving Lazar |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-irving-lazar-1407453.html |journal=The Independent |department=People |date=17 January 1994 |access-date=20 October 2021}}
Giuseppe Occhialini, 86, Italian physicist{{cite journal |last=Bignami |first=Giovanni |author-link=Giovanni Bignami |title=Giuseppe Paolo Stanislao Occhialini. 5 December 1907 – 30 December 1993 |journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society |volume=48 |pages=331–340 |doi=10.1098/rsbm.2002.0019 |date=1 December 2002 |issn=1748-8494 |publisher=The Royal Society |s2cid=58396511 |doi-access=free }}

December 31, 1993 (Friday)

In the 1993 Peach Bowl (December), played at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia, the Clemson Tigers defeated the Kentucky Wildcats by a score of 14–13.
In the 1993 Gator Bowl, played at Gator Bowl Stadium in Jacksonville, Florida, the Alabama Crimson Tide defeated the North Carolina Tar Heels by a score of 24–10.
In the 1993 Independence Bowl, played at Independence Stadium in Shreveport, Louisiana, the Virginia Tech Hokies defeated the Indiana Hoosiers by a score of 45–20.
In the inaugural edition of the Alamo Bowl, played at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, the California Golden Bears defeated the Iowa Hawkeyes by a score of 37–3.{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/18735737/barr-leads-cal-past-hawkeyes/ |last=Brown |first=Chip |title=Barr leads Cal past Hawkeyes |journal=Arizona Daily Star |agency=The Associated Press |date=1 January 1994 |page=32 |access-date=18 October 2021 |via=Newspapers.com}}
In Pampa, Texas, Twila Busby was strangled and bludgeoned to death and her two adult sons, Randy Busby and Elwin Caler, were stabbed to death. Busby's live-in boyfriend, Hank Skinner, would be convicted of the murders in 1995 and sentenced to death.{{cite news |url=https://www.amarillo.com/news/latest-news/2012-11-14/ag-says-dna-tests-implicate-hank-skinner-93-murders |title=AG says DNA tests implicate Hank Skinner in '93 Murders |journal=The Texas Tribune |date=14 November 2012 |publisher=Gannett Co., Inc. |access-date=17 October 2021 |via=Amarillo Globe-News}}
Born:
Ryan Blaney, American race car driver; in Hartford Township, Trumbull County, Ohio{{cite web |url=https://www.racing-reference.info/driver/Ryan_Blaney/ |title=Ryan Blaney |website=Racing-Reference.info |publisher=NASCAR Digital Media |access-date=16 October 2021}}
Dave Richards, Welsh footballer; in Abergavenny, Wales{{cite web |url=https://www.crewealex.net/teams/first-team/goalkeeper/dave-richards/ |title=Dave Richards - Goalkeeper - First Team |website=Crewe Alexandra |access-date=19 October 2021}}
Died:
Zviad Gamsakhurdia, 54, Georgian politician, 1st President of Georgia, gunshot to head{{cite news |url=http://www.civil.ge/eng/article.php?id=14893 |title=Thousands Pay Tribute to the First President |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080903224701/http://www.civil.ge/eng/article.php?id=14893 |archive-date=3 September 2008 |date=31 March 2007 |website=Civil Georgia |access-date=16 October 2021}}{{cite news |url=http://iwpr.net/report-news/burial-mystery-georgian-leader |last1=Tsuladze |first1=Zaza |last2=Dudayev |first2=Umalt |title=Burial Mystery of Georgian Leader: Four times reburied - where is the grave of Zviad Gamsakhurdia now? |journal=CRS |department=Caucasus |issue=375 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140225035959/http://iwpr.net/report-news/burial-mystery-georgian-leader |archive-date=25 February 2014 |date=16 February 2010 |publisher=Institute for War & Peace Reporting |access-date=16 October 2021}}
Brandon Teena, 21, American murder victim, was killed along with Lisa Lambert and Phillip DeVine in Humboldt, Nebraska.{{cite web |url=http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/not_guilty/brandon/5.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214094602/http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/not_guilty/brandon/5.html |archive-date=14 December 2013 |last=Ramsland |first=Katherine |author-link=Katherine Ramsland |title=The Brandon Teena Story — The Hunt for Brandon |work=Crime Library on truTV.com |publisher=Turner Entertainment Networks, Inc. |access-date=24 October 2021}}{{cite magazine |last=Howey |first=Noelle |title=Boys Do Cry |url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2000/03/boys-do-cry/ |magazine=Mother Jones |department=Politics |date=March 22, 2000 |access-date=24 October 2021}} Teena's story would later become the basis for the film Boys Don't Cry.
Thomas J. Watson Jr., 79, American businessman, political figure, and philanthropist, complications from a stroke{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/01/obituaries/ibm-s-computing-pioneer-thomas-watson-jr-dies-at-79.html |title=I.B.M.'s Computing Pioneer, Thomas Watson Jr., Dies at 79 |journal=The New York Times |date=1 January 1994 |access-date=16 October 2021}}

Footnotes

References

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