March 1993

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This article covers breaking news and events in March 1993.

Daily events

Monday March 1, 1993

• Berlin / Germany : The " Jugendradio Fritz " starts broadcasting its program at 6:00 am as a joint radio broadcaster for the public broadcasters Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg and Sender Freies Berlin . The successor to Rockradio B and Radio 4U offers u. a. Pop culture music , news, live broadcasts and cultural reports.

Thursday March 4th 1993

Manhattan, New York

• New York / United States : The FBI security agency arrests the Palestinian Mohammad Salameh in front of a car rental company . An item of evidence with the vehicle ID number of the Chevrolet Nova rented by Salameh was found in the rubble of the underground car park after the February 26 bombing of the World Trade Center .

Friday 5th March 1993

• Skopje / Macedonia : Shortly after take-off, a Fokker 100 operated by Palair Macedonian Airways hits the ground with the right wing , causing its fuselage to break into three parts. 83 of the 97 inmates are killed in the accident.

Saturday March 6, 1993

Logo of RTL 2

• Cologne / Germany : The broadcasters RTL starts 6:09 the program broadcasting of cable -TV broadcaster RTL 2 . Except via the cable network he's on the satellite Astra , where he the frequency of the sports channel takes, and Eutelsat receivable.

Monday March 8, 1993

Smokers inherit an increased risk of cancer

• Melbourne / Australia : The biochemist Bruce Ames proves for the first time that not only smoking mothers, but also smoking fathers pass on an increased risk of cancer to their children .

Monday March 15, 1993

• Berlin / Germany : In the second presentation of the music award Echo is rock - band Genesis Award in the category "Group of the Year International".

Saturday 20th March 1993

• Düsseldorf / Germany : The German boxer Henry Maske becomes the IBF world light heavyweight champion with a victory on points against the American Charles Williams .
• Stockholm / Sweden : Russia becomes world champion in handball with a 28:19 victory in the final of the 13th  Men's World Cup against France .

Sunday March 21, 1993

• Paris / France : In the first round of the parliamentary elections , each of the two large conservative alliances has more votes than the Socialist Party , which has been the head of government since 1988 .

Monday March 22, 1993

Pentium processor

• Santa Clara / United States : The microprocessor maker Intel starts shipping its new Pentium - processors whose bus is 64 bits wide. The data bus of the previous model still had 16 bits.

Wednesday March 24, 1993

• Cape Town / South Africa : President Frederik Willem de Klerk tells Parliament that South Africa was pursuing a nuclear weapons technology program in the 1980s . This was discontinued a few years ago and all results were destroyed. This is the first time a country has officially given up the development of the atomic bomb .

Saturday March 27, 1993

Weiterstadt correctional facility

• Niamey / Niger : In the second round of the presidential elections , Mahamane Ousmane from the Democratic and Social Assembly won 54.42% of the vote against Tandja Mamadou from the National Development Society's Movement .
• Beijing / China : The term of office of Yang Shangkun ( CCP ) as president of his country ends. He has filled this position since April 8, 1988. His successor is Jiang Zemin , who is the first politician since Mao Zedong to also be the party leader of the CCP and commander in chief of the People's Liberation Army .
• Weiterstadt / Germany : Members of the Red Army Faction (RAF) break into the new penal institution in Weiterstadt and trigger an explosion in the still vacant facility with the help of five charges of 40 kg each of commercial explosives.

Sunday March 28, 1993

• Åre / Sweden : In the overall standings of the men's competitions of the Alpine World Cup 1992/93 is the Luxembourg Marc Girardelli after the last race Place 1. He is the first downhill skier with five overall victories in the World Cup. Anita Wachter from Austria wins the current season for women .
• Paris / France : After the second round of parliamentary elections , the Socialist Party of President François Mitterrand and incumbent Prime Minister Pierre Bérégovoy have a disastrous election result. In the National Assembly , her parliamentary group only has 57 out of 577 seats. The conservative alliances, the Gathering Movement for the Republic and the Union for French Democracy, form the strongest and the second largest faction.

Monday March 29, 1993

• Los Angeles / United States : At the 65th Academy Awards for the film industry , American director Clint Eastwood's Merciless Late West wins the award for best film. Emma Thompson and Al Pacino win the Oscars for Best Actor .

See also

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

Web links

England in March 1993

Commons : March 1993  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ We here. In: fritz.de . Retrieved March 29, 2017 . 
2. ^ World Trade Center Bombing 1993. In: fbi.gov . Retrieved June 7, 2017 . 
3. ^ Aircraft accident Fokker 100 PH-KXL Skopje Airport. In: aviation-safety.net . Retrieved February 16, 2018 . 
4. ↑ The RTL-2 company history. In: rtl2.de . Retrieved August 5, 2017 . 
5. ↑ When father smokes. In: The time . March 19, 1993. Retrieved September 17, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Echo Facts. In: echopop.de . 2017, Retrieved April 19, 2018 . 
7. ^ The eleven world championship fights of Henry Maske. In: rhein-zeitung.de . June 12, 1998. Retrieved August 3, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Men's World Championships. In: dhb.de . Retrieved August 20, 2017 . 
9. ↑ Élections Législatives de la 5e république, 21 and 28 mars 1993. In: roi-president.com. Retrieved October 10, 2018 (French). 
10. ↑ 20 years of Pentium processor. In: computerbild.de . March 21, 2013, accessed June 7, 2017 . 
11. ↑ Why South Africa Gave Up the Bomb. In: Foreign Affairs . November 1993, accessed June 7, 2017 . 
12. ^ Elections in Niger: February / March 1993 Presidential Election. In: africanelections.tripod.com, African Elections Database. Retrieved June 7, 2017 . 
13. ↑ Biography of Jiang Zemin. In: whoswho.de . Accessed March 31, 2018 . 
14. ↑ License to blow up. In: Focus . July 26, 1993. Retrieved September 17, 2016 . 
15. ^ Cup Standing Alpine Skiing World Cup 1993 Men. In: fis-ski.com . Retrieved March 22, 2018 . 
16. ^ Cup Standing Alpine Skiing World Cup 1993 Ladies. In: fis-ski.com . Retrieved March 22, 2018 . 
17. ^ Simone Weske: European politics in contradiction . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften , Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-17794-6 , p. 155 .
18. ^ The 65th Academy Awards. In: oscars.org . Retrieved February 1, 2017 .