- May 11
- Paramaribo Suriname TV studio destroyed by fire. [1]
- May 13
- Methane gas explosion in Secunda coal mine South Africa, kills 50. [1]
- May 16
- Farmer Sugeng finds 1.2 million-year-old Pithecanthropus IX skull. [1]
- Süleyman Demirel elected President of Turkey. [1]
- May 18
- Danish people vote in favor of ratifying the Maastricht Treaty. [1]
- Italian police arrest Mafia boss Benedetto "Nitto" Santapaola. [1]
- May 19
- Boeing 727 crashes into mountain at Medellín, Colombia, kills 132. [1]
- Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 3,500 for first time (3,500.03). [1]
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- May 20
- Ten-metre meteor comes within 150,000 km of Earth (1993KA). [1]
- Intel announces availability of the Pentium processor. Prices are US$878 for 60MHz, and US$965 for 66MHz. [4]
- Ukraine Premier Leonid Koetsjma resigns. [1]
- May 21
- Dayanara Torres, 18, of Puerto Rico, crowned 42nd Miss Universe. [1]
- Opposition leader Xanana Gusmao of East-Timor sentenced to life. [1]
- Venezuela president Carlos Andrés Pérez fired. [1]
- May 24
- At the COMDEX show, Microsoft formally launches the Windows NT operating system. Initial version is 3.1. Price is US$495, or US$295 as an upgrade from a previous Windows operating system. The software comprises over 4 million lines of code. [4]
- Eritrea achieves independence from Ethiopia after 30-year civil war. [31] [1843.1035]
- Jesus Posadas Ocampo, Mexican cardinal/archbishop, shot dead at age 66. [1]
- Kurd rebellion kills 33 soldiers and five citizens in Turkey. [1]
- May 27
- A car bomb at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence kills five; the Mafia is suspected. [1] [31]
- May 28
- 200,000 demonstrate against mafia terror. [1]
- Polish Government of Suchocka falls. [1]
- May 29
- Neo-Nazis kill five Turkish women in Solingen, Germany. [1]
- May 31
- President Dobrica Cosic of Yugoslavia flees. [1]
- June 3
- British tanker British Trent collides with Panamanian bulk carrier Western Winner in thick fog, spilling 4.8 million litres of gasoline which ignites, killing seven British crewmen. [522]
- June 5
- 24 Pakistani troops in the United Nations forces are killed in Mogadishu, Somalia. [31]
- June 6
- Mongolia holds its first direct presidential elections. [31]
- June 8
- In Paris, Christian Didier breaks into the home of Rene Bousquet, banker and former Vichy France administrator, and shoots him dead. [31]
- June 11
- Universal releases the film Jurassic Park to theaters. (Total world gross ticket sales: $915 million (1st for 1993).) [31] [942]
- June 14
- Mulitpartyists win a referendum on the future of the one-party system in Malawi. [31]
- Tansu Çiller becomes prime minister of Turkey. [31]
- June 18
- Iraq refuses to allow UNSCOM weapons inspectors to install remote-controlled monitoring cameras at two missile engine test stands. [31]
- John Sculley steps down as CEO of Apple Computer, remaining as chairman. The board of directors names Michael Spindler as new CEO. (Steve Jobs brought Sculley into Apple in 1983, who effectively forced Jobs out of the company two years later.) [4]
- June 20
- A 7.5 earthquake hits Japan, killing 385 people. [31]
- June 22
- Japan's New Party Sakigake breaks away from the Liberal Democratic Party. [31]
- June 24
- Andrew Wiles wins worldwide fame after presenting his solution for Fermat's Last Theorem, a problem that has been unsolved for more than three centuries. [31]
- June 25
- Kim Campbell becomes the 19th and first female Prime Minister of Canada. [31]
- Litas currency is introduced in Lithuania. [31]
- June 27
- In Bad Kleinen, Germany, GSG 9 troopers arrest terrorists Birgit Hogefeld and Wolfgang Grams. [31]
- U.S. President Bill Clinton orders a cruise missile attack on Iraqi intelligence headquarters in the Al-Mansur District of Baghdad, in response to the attempted assassination of former U.S. President George H. W. Bush during his visit to Kuwait in mid-April. [31]
- July 12
- A magnitude 7.8 earthquake off Hokkaido, Japan launches a devastating tsunami up to 30 metres in height, killing 202 on the small island of Okushiri, Hokkaido. [31] [53]
- July 23
- Candelária massacre: Brazilian police officers kill eight street kids in Rio de Janeiro. [31]
- July 26
- Asiana Air Flight 733 crashes into Mt. Ungeo in Haenam, South Korea killing 68. [31]
- July 29
- The Israeli Supreme Court acquits accused German death camp guard John Demjanjuk of all charges and he is set free. [31]
- July 31
- Death of Baudouin I, King of Belgium (born 1930). [31]
- August 2
- A fishing net of the Mistake vessel snags on the underwater wreck of the El Cazador, 50 miles off the coast of Louisiana in 300 feet of water. The ship sunk in 17984 carrying 450,000 pesos in coins. [505.91]
- August 8
- South of the Mariana Islands, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake occurs. Forty-eight people injured on Guam. [53]
- August 9
- King Albert II of Belgium is sworn into office nine days after the death of his brother, King Baudouin I. [31] [1080.21]
- August 10
- On South Island, New Zealand, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake occurs. The shock was also felt at Sydney, Australia. [53]
- August 13
- Over 130 die in the collapse of Royal Plaza Hotel at Nakhon Ratchasima in Thailand's worst hotel disaster. [31]
- August 17
- A nuclear submarine and a supertanker collide off the French Riviera, creating an oil slick which is quickly contained. [522]
- August 21
- NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Observer orbiter three days before the spacecraft is scheduled to enter orbit around Mars. [5] [31]
- September 10
- Near the coast of Chiapas, Mexico, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake occurs. Felt in much of Central America. [53]
- September 13
- Norwegian parliamentary election: The Labour Party wins a plurality of the seats, and Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland retains office. [31]
- Palistinian Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shake hands in Washington D.C., after signing the Oslo peace accord. [31] [46.517] [129]
- September 19
- In Poland, a coalition of left parties wins 66 percent of parliament seats. [46.232]
- September 22
- Barge Mauvilla on Mobile River bumps into a rail bridge; the Los Angeles - Miami train hits a kink in the rail and derails, killing 42 of 202 passengers plus 5 crew. [720.152]
- September 30
- In Southern India, a magnitude 6.3 earthquake occurs. Nearly 10,000 people killed, about 30,000 injured and extreme devastation in the Latur-Osmanabad area. Nearly all buildings destroyed in the village of Khillari. Felt in large parts of central and southern India. This earthquake is the largest known earthquake to occur in the area. [31] [53]
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