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    Events

    January

  • January_1 - Czechoslovakia divides. Establishment of independent Slovakia and Czech_Republic.
  • January_3 - In Moscow, George_H._W._Bush and Boris_Yeltsin sign the second Strategic_Arms_Reduction_Treaty (START).
  • January_5 - Washington state executes Westley_Allan_Dodd by hanging (the first legal hanging in America since 1965).
  • January_18 - For the first time, Martin Luther King Jr. holiday is officially observed in all 50 United States states.
  • January_19 - IBM announces a $4.97 billion loss for 1992 which is the largest single-year corporate loss in United_States history.
  • 19 January - . US forces fire approximately 40 Tomahawk cruise missiles at Baghdad factories linked to Iraq's illegal nuclear weapons program. Iraq then informs UNSCOM that it will be able to resume its flights.
  • January_20 - Bill_Clinton succeeds George_H._W._Bush as President_of_the_United_States_of_America.
  • January_25 - Catherine_Callbeck becomes Premier of Prince_Edward_Island, becoming the first female Premier in Canada.
  • January_25 - A gunman kills two employees outside CIA headquarters in Langley,_Virginia
  • January_26 - Vaclav_Havel elected President of the Czech_Republic

    February

  • February_8 - General_Motors sues NBC after ''Dateline_NBC'' allegedly rigged two crashes showing that some GM pickups can easily catch fire if hit in certain places. NBC settled the lawsuit the next day.
  • February_11 - Irina_Privalova runs a world indoor record over 60 meters.
  • 11 February - Janet_Reno is selected by President Clinton as US Attorney General.
  • February_12 - British toddler Jamie_Bulger killed by two ten-year old boys.
  • , a van bomb parked below the North Tower of the World_Trade_Center goes off, killing 6 and injuring over a thousand.
  • February_23 - Gary_Coleman wins a $1,280,000 lawsuit against his parents.
  • February_28 - Bureau_of_Alcohol,_Tobacco_and_Firearms agents raid the Branch_Davidian compound in Waco,_Texas with a warrant to arrest cult leader David_Koresh on federal firearms violations. Four agents and six Davidians die in the raid and a 51-day standoff begins.

    March

  • March_4 - Authorities announce the capture of suspected World_Trade_Center_bombing conspirator Mohammad_Salameh.
  • March_9 -Rodney_King testifies at the federal trial of four Los_Angeles,_California police officers accused of violating King's civil_rights when they beat him during an arrest.
  • March_11 - Janet_Reno is confirmed by the United_States_Senate and sworn-in the next day becoming the first female Attorney_General_of_the_United_States.
  • March_12 - Several bombs explode in Bombay, India killing about 300 and injuring hundreds more.
  • 12 March - says that it plans to withdraw from the Nuclear_Nonproliferation_Treaty and refuses to allow inspectors access to nuclear sites.
  • March_13 - The Great_Blizzard_of_1993 strikes the eastern U.S., bringing record snowfall and other severe weather all the way from Cuba to Québec.
  • March_16 - The blizzard is reported to have killed 184, including many surprised and stranded along the Appalachian_Trail.
  • March_22 - The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586) 64 bits-60 MHz-100+ MIPS.
  • March_27 - Jiang_Zemin becomes President_of_the_People's_Republic_of_China.
  • March_28 - Gaullists win legislative election in France.
  • 28 March - Balladur becomes prime_minister of France.
  • March_31 - A bug in a program written by Richard_Depew sends an article to 200 newsgroups simultaneously. The term spamming is coined by Joel_Furr to describe the incident.

    April-May

  • April - The Kuwaiti government claims to uncover an Iraqi assassination plot against former US President George_H._W._Bush shortly after his visit to Kuwait. Two Iraqi nationals, caught with smuggled hashish and alcohol inside Kuwait, confess to driving a car-bomb into Kuwait on behalf of the Iraq_Secret_Service
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