1993 establishments in Ireland

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1993 was designated as:
* International Year for the World's Indigenous People

The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its calendar advanced 24 hours to the Eastern Hemisphere side of the International Date Line, skipping August 21, 1993.

Events

January

* January 1
** Czechoslovakia ceases to exist, as the Czech Republic and Slovakia separate in the Dissolution of Czechoslovakia.
** The European Economic Community eliminates trade barriers and creates a European single market.
* January 3 – In Moscow, Presidents George H. W. Bush (United States) and Boris Yeltsin (Russia) sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.
* January 5
** US$7.4 million is stolen from the Brink's Armored Car Depot in Rochester, New York, in the fifth largest robbery in U.S. history.
** , a Liberian-registered oil tanker, runs aground off the Scottish island of Mainland, Shetland, causing a massive oil spill.
* January 6
** Douglas Hurd is the first high-ranking British official to visit Argentina since the Falklands War.
** January 6– 20 – The Bombay riots take place in Mumbai.
* January 7 – The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated, with Jerry Rawlings as president.
* January 8– 17 – The Braer Storm of January 1993, the most intense extratropical cyclone on record for the northern Atlantic Ocean, occurs.
* January 13
** The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) is signed.
** Iraq disarmament crisis: US, British and French aircraft attack Iraqi Surface to Air Missile sites in Southern Iraq.
* January 14 – The Polish ferry sinks off the coast of Rügen in the Baltic Sea, killing 54 people.
* January 19 - 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. U.S. forces fire approximately 40 Tomahawk cruise missiles at Baghdad factories linked to Iraq's illegal nuclear weapons program (→ January 1993 airstrikes on Iraq). Iraq then informs UNSCOM that it will be able to resume its flights.
* January 20 – Bill Clinton is sworn in as the 42nd President of the United States.
* January 24 – In Turkey, thousands protest against the murder of journalist Uğur Mumcu.
* January 25 – Social Democrat Poul Nyrup Rasmussen succeeds Conservative Poul Schlüter as Prime Minister of Denmark.
* January 26 – Václav Havel is elected President of the Czech Republic.

February

* February 4 – Members of the right-wing Austrian Freedom Party of Austria split to form the Liberal Forum in protest against the increasing nationalistic bent of the party.
* February 10
** Lien Chan is named by Lee Teng-hui to succeed Hau Pei-tsun as Premier of the Republic of China.
** '' Mani pulite'' scandal: Italian legislator Claudio Martelli resigns, followed by various politicians over the next two weeks.
* February 14
** Glafcos Clerides defeats incumbent George Vasiliou in the Cypriot presidential election.
** Albert Zafy defeats Didier Ratsiraka in the Madagascar presidential election.
* February 22 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 808 is voted on, deciding that "an international tribunal shall be established" to prosecute violations of international law in Yugoslavia. The tribunal is established on May 25 by Resolution 827.
* February 26 – World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a van bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, killing six people and injuring over one thousand.

March

* March 5 – Macedonian Palair Flight 301, an F-100 on a flight to Zürich, crashes shortly after take-off from Skopje, killing 83 of the 97 on board.
* March 8 – The Moon moves into its nearest point to Earth, called perigee, at the same time as its fullest phase of the Lunar Cycle. The Moon appears to be 14% bigger and 30% brighter than the year's other full moons. The next time these two events coincided was in 2008.
* March 11 – Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn in the next day, becoming the first female Attorney General of the United States.
* March 12
** 1993 Bombay bombings: Several bombs explode in Bombay, India, killing 257 and injuring hundreds more.
** North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea announces that it plans to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and refuses to allow inspectors access to nuclear sites, beginning the 1993-94 North Korean Nuclear Crisis.
* March 13– 15 – The Great Blizzard of 1993 strikes the eastern U.S., bringing record snowfall and other severe weather all the way from Cuba to Quebec; it reportedly kills 184 people.
* March 13 – 1993 Australian federal election: Paul Keating's Labor Government is re-elected with an increased majority, defeating the Liberal/National Coalition led by John Hewson.
* March 17 – The Kurdistan Workers' Party announces a unilateral ceasefire in Iraq.
* March 24
** The Israeli Knesset elects Ezer Weizman as President of Israel.
** South Africa officially abandons its nuclear weapons programme. President de Klerk announces that the country's six warheads had already been dismantled in 1989.
* March 27
** Jiang Zemin becomes President of the People's Republic of China.
** Following a rash of integrist murders (including those of foreigners), Algeria breaks diplomatic relations with Iran, accusing the country of interfering in its interior affairs.
** Mahamane Ousmane is elected president of Niger

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