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This article covers breaking news and events in January 1993.

Daily events

Friday 1st January 1993

Flags of the CSFR and the Czech Republic

European Union (blue)

• Bern / Switzerland : The SVP politician Adolf Ogi takes over the office of Federal President .
• Bratislava / Slovakia , Prague / Czech Republic : The states of Slovakia and the Czech Republic emerge as their successor states after the dissolution of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic (CSFR). While Slovakia does not yet have a national flag, the Czech Republic continues to use the CSFR tricolor.
• Brussels / Belgium : The Maastricht Treaty comes into force and transforms the member states of the " European Communities " into member states of the " European Union " (EU). At the same time, the “ European Economic Community ” becomes the “ European Community ” (EC). The EU internal market is complete. It guarantees free movement of goods , free movement of persons , freedom to provide services and free movement of capital and payments .
• Copenhagen / Denmark : Denmark takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union from the United Kingdom . As in 1987, the post of Prime Minister of the European Community was given to Poul Schlueter .
• Munich / Germany : The private broadcaster Kirch-Gruppe starts broadcasting the television station Deutsches Sportfernsehen (DSF). The specialty channel takes over the cable frequency from Tele 5 .
• New York / United States : Brazil , Djibouti , New Zealand , Pakistan and Spain are new non-permanent members of the Security Council of the United Nations .

Sunday 3rd January 1993

George Bush and Boris Yeltsin signing the START II treaty

• Bonn / Germany : The German Vice Chancellor and Federal Minister of Economics Jürgen Möllemann ( FDP ) resigns from his ministerial office because of the unauthorized use of official forms in favor of a friend in the letterhead affair .
• Moscow / Russia : George Bush for the USA and Boris Yeltsin for the Russian Federation sign the START II treaty . The disarmament agreement commits both countries to a gradual reduction of strategic delivery systems for nuclear weapons .
• United States : Various local TV channels are broadcasting the first episode of the new TV series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine .
• Washington, DC / United States : Brockman Adams ( Democrat ), who sits in the US Senate for Washington State , resigns from office over the sexual harassment and rape scandal in one case. Eight of the women affected wrote a statement in 1992 with corresponding allegations. Most of them are former Adams employees.

Monday 4th January 1993

• Bratislava / Slovakia : Radio Slovakia International , the foreign service of the Slovak state broadcaster , goes on air three days after it was founded.
• London / United Kingdom : The business newspaper Financial Times is appearing on the centenary of the year, this time on white paper after the consistent use of salmon-colored paper.

Wednesday January 6, 1993

• Bischofshofen / Austria : The Austrian Andreas Goldberger wins the 41st Four Hills Tournament ahead of the Japanese Noriaki Kasai .

Thursday January 7th 1993

• Antarctica : The Norwegian Erling Kagge completes the first unsupported solo expedition to the South Pole . He covered the 1,310 km route in 51 days.

Friday January 8th 1993

• New York / United States : The Security Council of the United Nations recommended in Resolution 800 , the inclusion of Slovakia and in Resolution 801 , the inclusion of the Czech Republic in the international community.
• Sarajevo / Bosnia and Herzegovina : Bosnian Serbs stop a UN convoy guarded by French soldiers of the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) with the Bosnian Vice Prime Minister Hakija Turajlić , who is on the way from Sarajevo Airport to the seat of government. Shortly afterwards, he is shot in his car.

Saturday 9th January 1993

Typical street in Pudong, Shanghai

• Prévessin-Moëns / France : Jean-Claude Romand , who so far wrongly posed as a doctor, buys a pistol, a silencer and a gasoline canister and begins a series of murders.
• Shanghai / China : The Shanghai Pudong Development Bank is founded. The CPC declared the Shanghai Pudong District on Huangpu Island a special economic regulation zone in October 1992 .

Sunday 10th January 1993

• Bucharest / Romania : The Romanian Football Association suspended the goalkeeper of the national team Florin Prunea for nine months because he led a group of around 100 players who protested against late salary payments and called for the resignation of association president Dumitru Dragomir.

Monday January 11, 1993

Barents region

• Kirkenes / Norway : Finland , Norway, Russia and Sweden sign a formal cooperation agreement in the northern polar Barents Sea . The so-called Barents Cooperation comprises three levels: the Euro-Arctic Barents Sea Council, the Interregional Barents Regional Council and the working group of the indigenous peoples of the Barents region.
• New York / United States : The TV channel USA Network radiates the first episode of Wrestling -Show WWE Raw from. The show is geared towards commercial success down to the last detail, e.g. B. by offering pay-per-view . Therefore, their fate is also closely followed by other media providers.

Tuesday January 12, 1993

• Berlin / Germany : The trial of Erich Honecker , the former General Secretary of the Central Committee of the SED and chairman of the State Council of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), which joined the Federal Republic of Germany in 1990 , before the 27th criminal chamber of the Regional Court is suspended because of the defendant's state of health. The incitement to murder citizens of the GDR while trying to cross the inner-German border was negotiated .

Wednesday January 13, 1993

The USA and other states are demanding more military cooperation from Germany

• Berlin / Germany : The country Berlin dismisses the long-standing de facto - Prime Minister of the German Democratic Republic Erich Honecker from the prison . The case was closed yesterday.
• Bonn / Germany : The Bundestag passes an amendment to the Basic Law , which removes the unconstitutionality of the worldwide deployment of the Bundeswehr .

Thursday January 14, 1993

• Antarctica : Anne Dal Vera , Ann Bancroft , Sunniva Sorby and Sue Giller are the first women's team to reach the geographic South Pole on skis . They are among the first 30 people to cross the South Pole on skis and sleds.
• Nariño / Colombia : The Galeras volcano erupts unexpectedly and kills nine members of a research group that is currently on the summit.
• Baltic Sea : The Polish RoRo railway ferry Jan Heweliusz on the Oceaniczne line sinks on the way from Świnoujście (Swinoujscie) to Ystad off the coast of the island of Rügen in the Verena storm at wind speeds of around 160 km / h. The hurricane causes waves up to 4 m high.

Friday 15th January 1993

• Palermo / Italy : Salvatore "Totò" Riina , also known as "La Belva" ( German  "the beast" ), is arrested after years of fleeing. The arrest of the well-known leader of the Sicilian Mafia is also attributed to the fact that the murders of the popular judges Paolo Borsellino and Giovanni Falcone created great public pressure on politicians to finally take action against the Mafia more effectively.

Saturday 16th January 1993

• Florence / Italy : Pietro Pacciani is arrested as the main suspect in the “ Monster of Florence ”, a series of double murders. The wanted perpetrator has been linked to eight double murders.

Sunday 17th January 1993

• South Korea : Japanese Prime Minister Miyazawa Kiichi presented a formal apology for the suffering of the comfort women who had to serve the Japanese occupation soldiers during his tour of South Korea .

Monday January 18, 1993

• Munich / Germany : The weekly news magazine Focus appears for the first time and has an exclusive headline with a comeback of the politician Hans-Dietrich Genscher ( FDP ) as the successor to Richard von Weizsäcker ( CDU ) in the office of Federal President .

Tuesday January 19, 1993

• New York / United States : In accordance with the resolutions 800 and 801 of the Security Council of the United Nations (UN) fits the UN General Assembly the inclusion of the Slovak Republic and the Czech Republic to the States in alliance.

Wednesday January 20, 1993

Bill Clinton's oath of office

• Washington, DC / United States : Bill Clinton ( Democrat ) is sworn in to succeed George Bush ( Republican ) as President of the United States . Clinton defeated Bush in the November 3, 1992 election by a clear margin.

Thursday January 21, 1993

• Bonn / Germany : The Minister for Foreign Affairs Klaus Kinkel ( FDP ) inherits his party colleague Jürgen Möllemann as Vice Chancellor of the Federal Republic. At the same time, FDP politician Günter Rexrodt is appointed as the new Federal Minister of Economics .
• Germany : The anti- war film Stalingrad hits the cinemas. It deals with the Battle of Stalingrad from late 1942 to early 1943 during World War II from the perspective of a German Sturmpionier battalion.
• Sofia / Bulgaria : Darik Radio , the first private radio broadcaster with a national license, will start broadcasting its program at 12 noon.

Friday January 22, 1993

• Bærum / Norway : The airline Norwegian Air Shuttle is founded and initially takes over regional flights for the airline Braathens .
• Zadar / Croatia : In the Croatian war , the Croatian army begins Operation Maslenica , an offensive against Serbian troops in Dalmatia.

Saturday 23rd January 1993

• Beverly Hills / United States : In the 50th ceremony of the Golden Globe Awards , the actor wins Al Pacino in the category Best Actor (Drama) in a movie . Emma Thompson is named Best Actress and Lauren Bacall is given the Lifetime Achievement Award .
• Vienna / Austria : In response to the popular initiative “Austria first” initiated by the FPÖ , which was signed by 416,531 people and thus 7.35% of those eligible to vote, between 250,000 and 300,000 people took part in the “ Sea of ​​Lights ” campaign, to which the Human rights organization SOS Mitmensch called. She accuses the proponents of desire of nationalism .

Monday January 25, 1993

Logo from VOX

• Cologne / Germany : The broadcasters West German media holding company starts 17:00 the program broadcasting the new cable -Fernsehsenders VOX . The station, which is also broadcast via satellite , focuses on news and information.
• Copenhagen / Denmark : The government led by Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen replaces the Schlüter government after its resignation.
• Turkey : The day after the death of the publicist and Cumhuriyet editorial writer Uğur Mumcu by a car bomb, tens of thousands of people in various major cities in the country are protesting for freedom of the press . The perpetrators are suspected to be religious fanatics , based on research by Uğur Mumcu, according to currently circulating speculations, state circles may also be involved.

Tuesday January 26, 1993

• Prague / Czech Republic : The voters elect Václav Havel (independent), the identification figure of the Velvet Revolution of 1989, which was directed against the communist ruling party of Czechoslovakia , as the first President of the Czech Republic, which was founded on January 1st. From 1989 to 1992 Havel was already President of Czechoslovakia.

Saturday 30th January 1993

• Berlin / Germany : On the congress of the PDS , the delegates elect Lothar Bisky as the successor to Gregor Gysi in the office of party chairman.

Sunday January 31, 1993

Logo of the
27th Super Bowl

• Pasadena / United States : Super Bowl 27 in American football between the Dallas Cowboys and the Buffalo Bills ends 52:17.

See also

• Nekrolog January 1993 for deaths that month
• List of annually recurring commemorative and action days in January
• Category for commemorative days, holidays or action days in January

Web links

Réunion in January 1993

Commons : January 1993  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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10. ↑ Allegations Of Two Decades Of Sexual Harassment, Abuse - And A Rape. In: seattletimes.com . March 1, 1992, accessed April 1, 2017 . 
11. ↑ Výročná správa za rok Slovenského rozhlasu 2004. In: rtvs.sk . April 2005, accessed on November 16, 2017 (Slovak): “4. januára 1993 […] Zahraničného vysielania Slovenského rozhlasu. " 
12. ↑ Why is the Financial Times pink? In: theguardian.com . Retrieved November 17, 2017 . 
13. ↑ Four Hills Tournament. In: ifosta.de, Jörg Thomas. Accessed December 31, 2016 . 
14. ↑ fnp.de : Faster, higher, further - unusual world records ( Memento from December 23, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
15. ↑ Resolution 800. In: unscr.com . January 8, 1993, accessed November 17, 2017 . 
16. ↑ Resolution 801. In: un.org . January 8, 1993, accessed November 17, 2017 . 
17. ↑ United Nations Department of Public Information (Ed.): Basic Facts about the United Nations . United Nations Publication, New York City 2004, ISBN 92-1100936-7 , pp. 306 .
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19. ↑ "I am alive and you are dead". In: Der Spiegel . March 13, 2000. Retrieved November 17, 2017 . 
20. ^ A Brief Introduction to Shanghai Pudong Development Bank. In: spdb.com.cn . Retrieved November 17, 2017 . 
21. ^ Cooperation in the Barents Euro-Arctic Region. In: barentsinfo.fi, University of Lapland . January 11, 1993, accessed November 18, 2017 . 
22. ^ WWE Raw Retro Coverage - The first Raw from January 11, 1993. In: prowrestling.net, Last Row Media LLC. February 10, 2014, accessed November 18, 2017 . 
23. ↑ Was Erich Honecker right in court? In: berliner-kurier.de . July 29, 2017. Retrieved March 29, 2018 . 
24. ^ Honecker in freedom. In: spiegel.de . January 12, 2009. Retrieved May 22, 2017 . 
25. ↑ 130th Session. In: bundestag.de . January 13, 1993, accessed January 16, 2018 (shorthand report). 
26. ^ South Pole Revisited Explorer Tells Students About Her 67-daytrip. In: The Hartford Courant . April 27, 1994, accessed November 18, 2017 . 
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28. ↑ Hell in front of Rügen. In: svz.de . January 14, 2013, accessed November 18, 2017 . 
29. ↑ Even out of prison he ran the Cosa Nostra. In: welt.de . November 17, 2017. Retrieved November 17, 2017 . 
30. ↑ Michele Giuttari : The Monster of Florence: Anatomy of an investigation . Bastei Lübbe , Bergisch Gladbach 2008, ISBN 978-3-404-60608-5 , p. 75 .
31. ↑ 'Io, a caccia di un incubo'. In: La Repubblica . January 17, 1993, accessed November 18, 2017 (Italian). 
32. ↑ Yoshiaki Yoshimi: Comfort Women. Sexual Slavery in the Japanese Military During World War II . Columbia University Press , New York City 2000, ISBN 0-231-12033-8 , pp. 82-83 .
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37. ^ Bill Clinton becomes the nation's 42d President in 1993. In: Daily News . January 21, 1993, accessed March 30, 2018 . 
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40. ↑ Дарик радио, Централен офис. In: darikradio.bg . Retrieved November 19, 2017 (Bulgarian): "21 януари 1993" 
41. ^ FRN Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA Senior Secured Bond. In: norwegian.com . April 8, 2015, accessed on November 19, 2017 (English): "incorporated on January 22, 1993" 
42. ↑ 21st Anniversary of the Operation "Maslenica". In: morh.hr . January 23, 2014, accessed November 17, 2017 . 
43. ^ Winners & Nominees 1993. In: goldenglobes.com . Accessed December 12, 2017 . 
44. ^ Celebrities reflect on Lauren Bacall's legacy. In: sandiegouniontribune.com . Accessed December 12, 2017 . 
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47. ^ Nyrup Rasmussen bliver state minister. In: denstoredanske.dk . Retrieved on November 17, 2017 (Danish): "præsenterede Nyrup Rasmussen January 25, 1993" 
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49. ↑ Human rights activist, dramaturge, politician - Václav Havel will be absent from the Czech Republic. In: kas.de . December 19, 2011, accessed January 16, 2018 . 
50. ↑ Second interim report of the Independent Commission to review the assets of the parties and mass organizations of the GDR. In: bundestag.de . December 22, 1993, accessed on November 18, 2017 (notification by the Federal Government): "Lothar Bisky since January 30, 1993" 
51. ↑ nfl.com : Super Bowl XXVII Box Score ( Memento from February 6, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) (English)