$7,400,000 USD is stolen from
Brinks Armored Car Depot in
Rochester,
New York in the fifth-largest robbery in U.S. history. Four men, Samuel Millar, Father Patrick Moloney, former Rochester Police officer Thomas O'Connor, and Charles McCormick, all of whom have ties to the
Provisional Irish Republican Army, are accused.
January 19
IBM announces a $4,970,000,000 loss for 1992, the largest single-year corporate loss in United States history to date.
Iraq disarmament crisis:
Iraq refuses to allow UNSCOM inspectors to use its own aircraft to fly into Iraq, and begins military operations in the demilitarized zone between Iraq and
Kuwait, and the northern
Iraqi no-fly zones. U.S. forces fire approximately forty 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.
February 6 – Former tennis player
Arthur Ashe, 49, dies of complications due to
HIV in New York. Ashe was believed to have contracted the virus from a blood transfusion during a heart surgery ten years earlier.[1]
February 8 –
General Motors Corporation sues
NBC, after Dateline NBC allegedly rigged two crashes showing that some GM pickups can easily catch fire if hit in certain places. NBC settles the lawsuit the following day.
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 13–14 – The
Great Blizzard of 1993 strikes the eastern United States, bringing record snowfall and other severe weather all the way from
Cuba to
Quebec; the storm kills 318 people.
March 22 – The
Intel Corporation ships the first
Pentium chips.
April 13 – The Kuwaiti government claims to uncover an Iraqi assassination plot against former U.S. President
George H. W. Bush shortly after his visit to Kuwait. Two Iraqi nationals confess to driving a car bomb into Kuwait on behalf of the
Iraqi Intelligence Service.[2]
April 19 – A
51-day stand-off at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco,
Texas, ends with a fire that kills 76 people, including
David Koresh.
April 28 – An executive order is issued requiring the
United States Air Force to allow women to fly war planes.
May 5 – The
West Memphis Three are three men who – while teenagers – were tried and convicted, in 1994, of the May 5, 1993 murders of three boys in West Memphis, Arkansas. Damien Echols was sentenced to death, Jessie Misskelley Jr. was sentenced to life imprisonment plus two 20-year sentences, and Jason Baldwin was sentenced to life imprisonment. During the trial, the prosecution asserted that the children were killed as part of a Satanic ritual.
June 20 –
John Paxson's 3-point shot in Game 6 of the NBA Finals helps the
Chicago Bulls secure a 99–98 win over the
Phoenix Suns, and their third consecutive championship.
June 27 – 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.
July
July 1 –
Gian Ferri kills eight and injures six before committing suicide at a law firm in
San Francisco, sparking new legislative actions for gun control.
July 25 – Greg Nicholson, his girlfriend and her two young daughters are
murdered in Iowa by Dustin Honken and Angela Johnson. Nicholson was due to testify against Honken in court in relation to his drug activities.[5][6]
September 6 – Canadian software specialist Peter de Jager publishes an article titled "Doomsday 2000" in the U.S. weekly magazine Computerworld, which is the first known reference to Y2K – the
Year 2000 problem.
October 3 – A large-scale battle erupts between U.S. forces and local militia in
Mogadishu, Somalia; eighteen Americans and over 1,000 Somalis are killed.
October 8 –
David Miscavige announces the IRS has granted full tax exemption to the
Church of Scientology International and affiliated churches and organizations, ending the Church's 40-year battle with the IRS and resulting in religious recognition in the United States.
October 16 – U.S. President Bill Clinton sends six American warships to
Haiti to enforce
United Nations trade sanctions against their military-led regime.[7]
October 25 – Actor
Vincent Price dies of lung cancer.
October 27 – Wildfires begin in
California, which eventually destroy over 16,000 acres (65 km2) and 700 homes.[8]
December 11 – A variety of
Soviet space program paraphernalia are put to auction in
Sotheby's New York, and sell for a total of US$6,800,000. One of the items is
Lunokhod1 and its spacecraft Luna 17; they sell for $68,500.
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the original on 2015-07-11. Retrieved 2014-01-16. Peeples, Aubrey Shea, born to Wendy and Ashley, Lake Mary, Winter Park Memorial Hospital
$7,400,000 USD is stolen from
Brinks Armored Car Depot in
Rochester,
New York in the fifth-largest robbery in U.S. history. Four men, Samuel Millar, Father Patrick Moloney, former Rochester Police officer Thomas O'Connor, and Charles McCormick, all of whom have ties to the
Provisional Irish Republican Army, are accused.
January 19
IBM announces a $4,970,000,000 loss for 1992, the largest single-year corporate loss in United States history to date.
Iraq disarmament crisis:
Iraq refuses to allow UNSCOM inspectors to use its own aircraft to fly into Iraq, and begins military operations in the demilitarized zone between Iraq and
Kuwait, and the northern
Iraqi no-fly zones. U.S. forces fire approximately forty 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.
February 6 – Former tennis player
Arthur Ashe, 49, dies of complications due to
HIV in New York. Ashe was believed to have contracted the virus from a blood transfusion during a heart surgery ten years earlier.[1]
February 8 –
General Motors Corporation sues
NBC, after Dateline NBC allegedly rigged two crashes showing that some GM pickups can easily catch fire if hit in certain places. NBC settles the lawsuit the following day.
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 13–14 – The
Great Blizzard of 1993 strikes the eastern United States, bringing record snowfall and other severe weather all the way from
Cuba to
Quebec; the storm kills 318 people.
March 22 – The
Intel Corporation ships the first
Pentium chips.
April 13 – The Kuwaiti government claims to uncover an Iraqi assassination plot against former U.S. President
George H. W. Bush shortly after his visit to Kuwait. Two Iraqi nationals confess to driving a car bomb into Kuwait on behalf of the
Iraqi Intelligence Service.[2]
April 19 – A
51-day stand-off at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco,
Texas, ends with a fire that kills 76 people, including
David Koresh.
April 28 – An executive order is issued requiring the
United States Air Force to allow women to fly war planes.
May 5 – The
West Memphis Three are three men who – while teenagers – were tried and convicted, in 1994, of the May 5, 1993 murders of three boys in West Memphis, Arkansas. Damien Echols was sentenced to death, Jessie Misskelley Jr. was sentenced to life imprisonment plus two 20-year sentences, and Jason Baldwin was sentenced to life imprisonment. During the trial, the prosecution asserted that the children were killed as part of a Satanic ritual.
June 20 –
John Paxson's 3-point shot in Game 6 of the NBA Finals helps the
Chicago Bulls secure a 99–98 win over the
Phoenix Suns, and their third consecutive championship.
June 27 – 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.
July
July 1 –
Gian Ferri kills eight and injures six before committing suicide at a law firm in
San Francisco, sparking new legislative actions for gun control.
July 25 – Greg Nicholson, his girlfriend and her two young daughters are
murdered in Iowa by Dustin Honken and Angela Johnson. Nicholson was due to testify against Honken in court in relation to his drug activities.[5][6]
September 6 – Canadian software specialist Peter de Jager publishes an article titled "Doomsday 2000" in the U.S. weekly magazine Computerworld, which is the first known reference to Y2K – the
Year 2000 problem.
October 3 – A large-scale battle erupts between U.S. forces and local militia in
Mogadishu, Somalia; eighteen Americans and over 1,000 Somalis are killed.
October 8 –
David Miscavige announces the IRS has granted full tax exemption to the
Church of Scientology International and affiliated churches and organizations, ending the Church's 40-year battle with the IRS and resulting in religious recognition in the United States.
October 16 – U.S. President Bill Clinton sends six American warships to
Haiti to enforce
United Nations trade sanctions against their military-led regime.[7]
October 25 – Actor
Vincent Price dies of lung cancer.
October 27 – Wildfires begin in
California, which eventually destroy over 16,000 acres (65 km2) and 700 homes.[8]
December 11 – A variety of
Soviet space program paraphernalia are put to auction in
Sotheby's New York, and sell for a total of US$6,800,000. One of the items is
Lunokhod1 and its spacecraft Luna 17; they sell for $68,500.
^"Archived copy". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on 2002-10-14. Retrieved 2016-02-07.{{
cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (
link) CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (
link)
^"Births". Orlando Sentinel. Orlando, Florida. December 26, 1993. Archived from
the original on 2015-07-11. Retrieved 2014-01-16. Peeples, Aubrey Shea, born to Wendy and Ashley, Lake Mary, Winter Park Memorial Hospital