What happened in 1993

“I Will Always Love You”

Whitney Houston · 9 weeks at #1 in 1993

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1. Jan 2I Will Always Love YouWhitney Houston9 wks
2. Mar 6A Whole New World (Aladdin's Theme)Peabo Bryson & Regina Belle1 wk
3. Mar 13InformerSnow7 wks
4. May 1Freak MeSilk2 wks
5. May 15That's The Way Love GoesJanet Jackson8 wks
6. Jul 10WeakSWV2 wks
7. Jul 24Can't Help Falling In Love (From "Sliver")UB407 wks
8. Sep 11DreamloverMariah Carey8 wks
9. Nov 6I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)Meat Loaf5 wks
10. Dec 11AgainJanet Jackson2 wks
11. Dec 25HeroMariah Carey1 wk

Dates are the first chart week at #1 in 1993; weeks count only those in 1993.Find the #1 song on your birthday →

1. Jan 19Czech Republic and Slovakia join the United Nations.
2. Feb 26World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a truck bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, killing six and injuring over a thousand people.
3. Feb 28Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) agents raid the Branch Davidian church in Waco, Texas with a warrant to arrest the group's leader David Koresh, starting a 51-day standoff.
4. Mar 11The U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed Janet Reno as the first female United States attorney general.
5. Apr 19The 51-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian building in Waco, Texas, US, ends when a fire breaks out. Seventy-six Davidians, including 18 children under age 10, died in the fire.
6. Apr 23Eritreans vote overwhelmingly for independence from Ethiopia in a United Nations-monitored referendum.
7. May 24Eritrea gains its independence from Ethiopia.
8. Aug 31Russia completes removing its troops from Lithuania.
9. Sep 13Nirvana released their third and final studio album, In Utero, which went on to sell more than 15 million copies.
10. Sep 22A tugboat towing a barge collided with a rail bridge in Mobile, Alabama, U.S., deforming the tracks and causing the derailment of a passenger train eight minutes later, which killed 47 people and injured an additional 103.
11. Oct 3An American attack against a warlord in Mogadishu fails; eighteen US soldiers and over 350 Somalis die.
12. Nov 17United States House of Representatives passes a resolution to establish the North American Free Trade Agreement.
13. Nov 18In the United States, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is approved by the House of Representatives.
14. Dec 2Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is shot and killed by police in Medellín.

Event summaries from Wikipedia’s “On this day”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Each links to its article.

• U.S. President

  George H. W. Bush → Bill Clinton

• UK Prime Minister

  John Major

• Prime Minister of Canada

  Brian Mulroney → Kim Campbell → Jean Chrétien

• President of France

  François Mitterrand

• German Chancellor

  Helmut Kohl

• Prime Minister of Japan

  Kiichi Miyazawa → Morihiro Hosokawa

• President of Russia

  Boris Yeltsin

Everyone who held the office at some point in 1993, from Wikidata.

A selection of the best-documented titles on Wikidata, by first release year; not a box-office ranking.

• Jack SchlossbergAmerican writer and political candidate · Jan 19
• Victoria JusticeAmerican actress and singer · Feb 19
• Bobbi Kristina BrownAmerican singer and actress (died 2015) · Mar 4
• Anthony DavisAmerican basketball player · Mar 11
• Solo SikoaAmerican wrestler · Mar 18
• Debby RyanAmerican actress and singer · May 13
• Miranda CosgroveAmerican actress and singer · May 14
• Maika MonroeAmerican actress and kiteboarder · May 29
• Ariana GrandeAmerican singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress · Jun 26
• SaweetieAmerican rapper · Jul 2

From Wikipedia’s “On this day”, CC BY-SA 4.0.