April 1993
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This article covers breaking news and events in April 1993.
Daily events
Thursday April 1, 1993
- Bonn / Germany : car - drivers who take on their way children younger than 12 are, they must in future child seats accommodate. This obligation does not apply if the child is over 150 cm tall.
- Moscow / Russia : Dimitri Muratow and colleagues found the Novaja Gazeta , one of the first newspapers in Russia to focus on investigative journalism .
Thursday April 8, 1993
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- New York / United States : The United Nations admit the Balkan state Macedonia as a member. On the same day, the majority of the states of the European Union recognize the country as a sovereign state . To distinguish it from the Greek region of Makedonia , the country has to use the name “Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia” ( German “Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia” ).
Saturday April 10, 1993
- Boksburg / South Africa : The supporter of the African resistance movement Janusz Waluś shoots Chris Hani , the chief of staff of the formerly armed subgroup of the African National Congress , in front of his house. Waluś became radicalized because of the influx of black people into his hometown.
Friday April 16, 1993
- New York / United States : The Security Council of the United Nations decides to reduce the violence in the Bosnian war , the Resolution 819 , which is a UN safe area around Srebrenica provides. The army of the Republika Srpska is fighting for the integration of the city, which belongs to Bosnia and Herzegovina , into a Serb-dominated state .
Monday April 19, 1993
- Waco / United States : On the 51st day of the siege of Mount Carmel, a property of the " Branch Davidians " religious community , the FBI security service tried to use the tear gas CS to drive the besieged out of their accommodations with the help of pioneer tanks. The representatives of the religious community, a split from the Seventh-day Adventists , then set a fire on the premises. In the end, 76 people died as a result of the fire and gunshot wounds.
Thursday April 22, 1993
- Washington, DC / United States : As a national memorial to the victims of the Shoah , the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on the Mall opened.
Friday April 23, 1993
- Stuttgart / Germany : The Federal Garden Show (BUGA), which is also the International Horticultural Exhibition this year , opens.
Saturday April 24th 1993
- Constance / Germany : The 9 m high and 18 t heavy statue of the Imperia by the sculptor Peter Lenk is set up in the harbor. It is a satirical reminder of the Council of Constance and portrays a luscious courtesan .
- London / United Kingdom : The NatWest Tower , at 183 m the tallest building in the City of London , is badly damaged in a terrorist attack by the Provisional Irish Republican Army . One person is killed and 50 are injured.
- New Delhi / India : The 73rd Amendment to the Constitution , adopted by Parliament in 1992 , comes into force and elevates village self-government to constitutional status based on the principle of the Panchayati Raj . The new legal situation paves u. a. the way to a decentralization of the Indian education system .
Sunday April 25, 1993
- Asmara / Ethiopia : In the referendum on the independence of the Eritrean part of Ethiopia, over a million voters are in favor of Eritrean independence and around 2,000 are against. The government of Ethiopia approved the voting.
- Moscow / Russia : The referendum on the government's economic policy pushed through by President Boris Yeltsin in the wake of the constitutional crisis is adopted with 58.1% of the votes. While the majority of parliamentarians show aversion to market economy reforms, Yeltsin praises them as an opportunity for Russia.
Monday April 26, 1993
- Cape Canaveral / United States : The space shuttle Columbia takes off into space on its STS-55 mission . In the Spacelab u. a. the course of an intravenous injection under the conditions of weightlessness can be researched. It is the second Spacelab mission with German participation.
Tuesday April 27, 1993
- Gulf of Guinea : The Zambian national soccer team travels by plane to a qualifying game for the 1994 World Cup in Senegal . The machine explodes over the Gulf of Guinea. 18 players and the coach die.
- Yerevan / Armenia : The National Bank is elevated to the Central Bank of the Republic of Armenia by law .
Friday April 30th 1993
- Hamburg / Germany : While changing sides in a quarter-final match of the WTA tennis tournament , the mentally disturbed Günter Parche stabbed the player Monica Seles in the back with a knife. His admiration for the Seles opponent Steffi Graf should be the motive of the deed.
- Meyrin / Switzerland : The research institute CERN has announced that it will make the World Wide Web , which is used to distribute electronic hypertext documents via the Internet , accessible to everyone.
See also
- Nekrolog April 1993
- List of annually recurring days of remembrance and action in April
- Category for commemorative days, public holidays or days of action in April
Web links
Commons : April 1993 - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files
Individual evidence
- ↑ Without a seat belt and with 1.5 per mil - that's how you drove a car in the past. In: fr.de . January 7, 2016, accessed June 7, 2017 .
- ↑ Novaya Gazeta. In: mediadb.eu . Retrieved January 10, 2017 .
- ^ History. In: uni-koblenz.de . Retrieved March 25, 2017 .
- ↑ A murderer as an idol. In: spiegel.de . May 5, 2017. Retrieved May 5, 2017 .
- ^ Resolutions and decisions of the Security Council 1993. In: un.org . 1995, accessed May 5, 2017 .
- ↑ Waco, Texas - a place for conspiracy theorists. In: welt.de . April 18, 2013, accessed March 30, 2017 .
- ^ Opening of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. In: ushmm.org . Retrieved April 28, 2017 (English).
- ^ IGA Stuttgart 1993. In: bundesgartenschau.de . Retrieved March 30, 2017 .
- ↑ Imperia Constance. In: bodensee.de, Bodensee.de Tourismus Marketing GmbH & CO. KG. Retrieved May 5, 2017 .
- ^ IRA bomb devastates City of London. In: bbc.co.uk . Retrieved May 5, 2017 .
- ^ Structure and organization of education in states. In: kas.de . Retrieved on May 5, 2017 : "[...] with the 73rd and 74th amendments to the Constitution of April 24 and June 1, 1993 [...]"
- ^ Elections in Eritrea. In: africanelections.tripod.com, African Elections Database. January 23, 2011, accessed May 5, 2017 .
- ↑ On to the last stand. In: fes.de . June 1994, accessed April 1, 2017 .
- ↑ STS-55 (55). In: nasa.gov . June 29, 2001, accessed March 30, 2017 .
- ^ Africa Cup of Nations memorable moments. In: theguardian.com . January 27, 2017, accessed April 21, 2018 .
- ^ About the CBA. In: cba.am . Retrieved February 16, 2018 .
- ↑ Monica Seles. In: tennisfame.com . Retrieved May 5, 2017 .
- ↑ cern.ch : Ten Years Public Domain for the Original Web Software ( Memento from April 17, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (English)