What is 1993?
{{unsourced|date=March 2020}} {{Year nav|1993}} {{Year in various calendars|1993}} '''1993''' ([[Roman numerals|MCMXCIII]]) was a [[common year starting on Friday]] in the [[Gregorian calendar]], the 1993rd year of the [[Common Era]] (CE) and ''[[Anno Domini]]'' (AD) designations, {{Year article header/year number|1993}}. == Events == === January === * [[January 1]] – [[Czechoslovakia]] divides. Establishment of independent [[Slovakia]] and [[Czech Republic]]. * [[January 3]] – In [[Moscow]], [[George H. W. Bush]] and [[Boris Yeltsin]] sign the second [[Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty]] (START). * [[January 5]] – [[Washington| Washington State]] executes [[Westley Allan Dodd]] by [[hanging]] (the first legal hanging in America since [[1965]]). * [[January 9]] – [[Jean-Claude Romand]] kills his family and tries to burn himself with his home in France. *[[January 15]] – [[Salvatore Riina]], the [[Mafia]] boss known as 'The Beast', is arrested in [[Sicily]] after three-decades as a fugitive * [[January 18]] – For the first time, [[Martin Luther King Day|Martin Luther King Jr. holiday]] is officially observed in all 50 [[U.S. state|United States states]]. * [[January 19]] ** [[International Business Machines|IBM]] announces a $4.97 billion loss for [[1992]] which is the largest single-year corporate loss in [[United States]] history. ** [[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|No-fly Zone]]. US forces fire approximately 40 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. * [[January 20]] – [[Bill Clinton]] succeeds [[George H. W. Bush]] as [[President of the United States of America]]. * [[January 25]] ** [[Catherine Callbeck]] becomes Premier of [[Prince Edward Island]], becoming the first woman to be e