The Miss Sarajevo beauty pageant is held in war-torn Sarajevo drawing global attention to the plight of its citizens. Date: May 29, 1993 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 29 📅 Events on this day in 1993 📅 On This Day (Today)
Roman Catholic Cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo and five other people are assassinated in a shootout at Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla Guadalajara International Airport in Mexico. Date: May 24, 1993 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 24 📅 Events on this day in 1993 📅 On This Day (Today)
Eritrea gains its independence from Ethiopia. Date: May 24, 1993 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 24 📅 Events on this day in 1993 📅 On This Day (Today)
SAM Colombia Flight 501 crashes on approach to José María Córdova International Airport in Medellín, Colombia, killing 132. Date: May 19, 1993 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 19 📅 Events on this day in 1993 📅 On This Day (Today)
Riots in Nørrebro, Copenhagen, caused by the approval of the four Danish exceptions in the Maastricht Treaty referendum. Police open fire against civilians for the first time since World War II and injure 11 demonstrators. Date: May 18, 1993 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 18 📅 Events on this day…
In Thailand, a fire at the Kader Toy Factory kills over 200 workers. Date: May 10, 1993 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 10 📅 Events on this day in 1993 📅 On This Day (Today)
Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa is assassinated in Colombo in a suicide bombing carried out by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Date: May 1, 1993 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 1 📅 Events on this day in 1993 📅 On This Day (Today)
CERN announces World Wide Web protocols will be free. Date: April 30, 1993 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 30 📅 Events on this day in 1993 📅 On This Day (Today)
Most of the Zambia national football team lose their lives in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon en route to Dakar, Senegal to play a 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Senegal. Date: April 27, 1993 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 27 📅 Events on this day in 1993…
The Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on mission STS-55 to conduct experiments aboard the Spacelab module. Date: April 26, 1993 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 26 📅 Events on this day in 1993 📅 On This Day (Today)