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Top Song(s)
• UB40 - Can't Help Falling in Love
• Snow - Informer
• Ace of Base - All That She Wants
• Janet Jackson - That's the Way Love Goes
• Bryan Adams - Please Forgive Me
Top Film(s)
• • Jurassic Park
• Schindler's List
• Groundhog Day
• The Fugitive
• Three Colors: Blue
Best Selling Book(s)
• The Giver - Lois Lowry
• Voyager - Diana Gabaldon
• The Shipping News - Annie Proulx
• The Fires of Heaven - Robert Jordan
• Parable of the Sower - Octavia E. Butler
Famous Deaths
• January 6 – Dizzy Gillespie, American musician, bandleader, singer and composer
• January 24 – Thurgood Marshall, American jurist, First African-American on the Supreme Court
• February 11 - Robert W. Holley, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• March 3 – Albert Sabin, American biologist, developer of the oral polio vaccine
• March 20 - Polykarp Kusch, German-born American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• May 26 – Catherine Caradja, Romanian aristocrat and philanthropist
• June 22 – Pat Nixon, wife of Richard Nixon, First Lady of the United States
• Jule 11 - Kelly Ahrendt, 1st death by rabies in NY since 1954
• September 27 – Jimmy Doolittle, American aviation pioneer and World War II
• November 1 – Severo Ochoa, Spanish-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize
Medical/Science/Technology
• Asteroid 7253 Nara is discovered by Fumiaki Uto.
• The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips.
• The term spamming is coined by Joel Furr.
• Release of version 1.0 of the Mosaic Web browser, devised by Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina in the U.S.
• Publication of a seminal paper on the particle filter.
• 14-year-old fossil hunter Wes Linster finds the first Bambiraptor skeleton in Montana.
• Start of Milwaukee Cryptosporidiosis outbreak.
• Formal launch of the Cochrane Collaboration.
• Francisco Mojica first characterizes what becomes known as the CRISPR locus.
• The "Intelligent Prosthesis", the first commercially available microprocessor-controlled prosthetic knee.
Political
• January 3 – In Moscow, George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.
• January 7 – The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated, with Jerry Rawlings as president.
• January 20 – Bill Clinton is sworn in as the 42nd president of the United States.
• February 11 – Janet Reno is selected by President Clinton as Attorney General of the United States.
• February 17 – President Clinton delivers his first address to the 103rd Congress.
• March 11 – Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate.
• May 16 – The Grand National Assembly of Turkey elects Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel as President of Turkey.
• June 27 – President Bill Clinton orders a cruise missile attack on Iraqi intelligence HQ in Baghdad.
• July 20 – White House deputy counsel Vince Foster dies by suicide in Virginia.
• August 10 - Ruth Bader Ginsburg is sworn in as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
National
• January 19 - IBM announces a $4,970,000,000 loss for 1992, the largest single-year corporate loss in U.S history to date.
• February 8 – General Motors Corporation sues NBC.
• March 13–14 – The Great Blizzard of 1993 strikes the eastern United States, the storm kills 318 people.
• April–May – A virus strikes the Four Corners, killing at least 13 people.
• June 11 – Jurassic Park, directed by Steven Spielberg, is released in theaters as the first film in the Jurassic Park saga.
• July 27 – Windows NT 3.1, the first version of Microsoft's line of Windows NT operating systems, is released.
• August 10 - World Youth Day 1993 in Denver, Colorado.
• September 4 – The second World Parliament of Religions is held in Chicago.
• October 27 – Wildfires begin in California, which eventually destroy over 16,000 acres and 700 homes.
• November 22 – TV Food Network makes its debut.
Worldwide
• January 6 - Douglas Hurd is the first high-ranking British official to visit Argentina since the Falklands War.
• January 13 - The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) is signed.
• February 4 – Members of the right-wing Austrian Freedom Party of Austria split to form the Liberal Forum.
• March 12 - 1993 Bombay bombings: Several bombs explode in Bombay, India, killing 257 and injuring hundreds more.
• April 8 – The Republic of Macedonia is admitted to the United Nations.
• May 25 – The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia is created in The Hague.
• June 6 - Mongolia holds its first direct presidential elections, Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat remains president.
• July 7–9 – The 19th G7 summit is held in Tokyo, Japan.
• August 31 – Russia completes removing its troops from Lithuania.
• November 1 – The Maastricht Treaty takes effect, formally establishing the European Union.