In 1993...

• Bill Clinton becomes president of the US
• A powerful bomb explodes in an underground parking garage beneath the World Trade Center, killing six
• Jurassic Park is the top grossing film
• The academy award for the best movie went to Schindler's List
• The European Community eliminates trade barriers and creates a European single market.
• Id Software releases Doom, a seminal first-person shooter that uses advanced 3D graphics for computer games.
• Jiang Zemin becomes President of the People's Republic of China.
• A nuclear accident occurs at Tomsk 7 in Russia.
• The Nobel Peace prize went to Nelson Mandela and Frederik Willem de Klerk.
• The Nobel prize for physics went to Russell Alan Hulse and Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr. from the United States for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation.
• It was the year that Audrey Hepburn passed away.
• Dyson sells the first bagless cyclonic Vacuum Cleaner.
• A ferry sinks in Haiti, killing approximately 1,215 out of 1,500 passengers.
• The World Health Organization declares tuberculosis a Global Emergency.
• Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time becomes the longest running book on the bestseller list of The Sunday Times ever.