Today in History for April 1993
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Months in 1993: January February March May June July August September October November December
Historical Events
Results 1 - 73 of 73
1st - Alan Bennett's "Madness of George III," premieres in London
1st - Stephane Powers weds Patrick de la Chenais
2nd - 1st test flight of Fokker 70 (Amsterdam)
2nd - Venezuelan DC-10 crashes at Margarita, killing 10
4th - 12th NCAA Women's Basketball Champion: Texas Tech beats OH State 84-82
4th - 5th Seniors Golf Tradition: Tom Shaw
4th - Trish Johnson wins Las Vegas LPGA at Canyon Gate Golf Tournament
4th - Wrestlemania IX at Caesar's Palace Las Vegas, Hulk Hogan pins Yokozuna
5th - 55th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: NC beats Michigan 77-71
5th - 73,293 see Yankees beat Indians 9-1
5th - Colorado Rockies 1st game - lose to NY Mets 3-0
5th - Construction begins on Cleveland's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
5th - Florida Marlins 1st game - beat LA Dodgers 6-3
5th - Republican Guard kills 64 in Chad
6th - 1st test flight of Ilyushin IL-96M (Moscow)
6th - Florida Marlins 1st lost ever (4-2 to LA Dodgers)
7th - Dante Bichette hits the 1st Colo Rockie HR (Shea Stadium NY)
8th - Indians' Carlos Baerga is 1st to switch hit HRs in same inn (vs Yanks)
8th - STS-56 (Discovery) launches into orbit
9th - Colorado Rockies 1st home game & 1st victory, 11-4 over Mont Expos
10th - BPAA US Open by Del Ballard Jr
10th - Ottawa Senators win 1st road game (Islanders) after 38 straight loses
10th - Pittsburgh Penguins win their NHL record 17 game winning streak
11th - 57th Golf Masters Championship: Bernhard Langer wins, shooting a 277
11th - Jeff Rouse swims world record 100m backstroke (51.43 sec)
11th - Kirsan Ilumzjinov installed as president of Kalmukkie
11th - 450 prisoners rioted at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and continued to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions, as well as the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis) against their religious beliefs. It was Easter Sunday.
13th - "3 Men on a Horse" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 40 performances
13th - 14th Emmy Sports Award presentation
13th - Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia," premieres in London
16th - Jury reaches guilty verdict in Federal case against cop who beat Rodney King, but the verdict is not read until April 17th
17th - Police officers found guilty of violating Rodney Kings civil rights
17th - STS-56 (Discovery) lands
18th - "Ain't Broadway Grand" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 25 perfs
18th - 54th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Tom Wargo
18th - Beirut-hostage Terry Anderson marries Madeleine Bassil
18th - David Lee Roth arrested in NYC for purchasing marijuana for $10
18th - Trish Johnson wins LPGA Atlanta Women's Golf Championship
19th - 22nd Boston Women's Marathon won by Olga Markova of Russia in 2:25:27
19th - 97th Boston Marathon won by Cosmas N'deti of Kenya in 2:09:33
19th - Branch Davidians in Waco Texas commit suicide after 51 day siege
19th - Fire in psychiatric institute in South Korea, kills 40
19th - South Dakota governor George Mickelson and seven others are killed when a state-owned aircraft crashed lands in Iowa.
20th - Uranus passes Neptune (once every 171 years)
21st - "Wilder, Wilder, Wilder" opens at Circle in Sq NYC for 30 perfs
21st - Brazil votes against a monarchy
21st - Rolling Stone Bill Wyman weds Suzanne Accosta on French Riveria
22nd - "Who's Tommy" opens at St James Theater NYC for 899 performances
22nd - Candid Camera creator Allen Funt suffers a stroke at 78
22nd - Holocaust Memorial Museum dedicated in Wash DC
22nd - Seattle Mariner Chris Basio no-hits Boston Red Sox
22nd - Tennis star Bjorn Borg divorces Loredana Berte
22nd - The web browser Mosaic version 1.0 is released.
23rd - Eritrea votes to secede from Ethiopia
23rd - Motley Crue's Mike Mars files for divorce from Emi-Canyn
23rd - Peter Townshend's musical "Tommy," premieres in NYC
24th - 1000 kg heavy IRA car bomb explodes in London, killing 1
24th - ABC news analyst Jeff Greenfield weds Karen Gannett
24th - Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by George Branham
24th - An IRA bomb devastates the Bishopsgate area of London.
25th - "Blood Brothers" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 839 performances
25th - Russia elect Boris Yeltsin leader
26th - "Shakespeare for My Father" opens at Helen Hayes NYC for 266 perfs
26th - Boeing 737 crashes at Aurangabad, kills 56
26th - NBC announces Conan O'Brien to replace David Letterman
26th - STS-55 (Columbia) launches into orbit
27th - Afghan Antonov AN-32 crashes at Tashqurgan, kills 76
28th - "Tango Passion" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 5 performances
28th - Carlo Ciampi forms Italian govt with ex-communists
28th - Zambian plane crashes at Libreville, Gabon, 30 soccer players die
28th - NY Islanders beat Wash Caps 4 to 1 in playoffs, Caps Dale Hunter attacks Pierre Turgeon after scoring, in hockey's worst cheap shot
30th - The World Wide Web is born at CERN.
30th - Virgin Radio broadcasts for the first time in the United Kingdom.
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 7 of 7
3rd - Dakoda Dowd, American golfer
8th - Trent Sullivan, Australian Actor
14th - Vivien Cardone, an American actress
14th - Graham Phillips (actor), American actor
15th - Madeleine Martin, American television actress
16th - Mirai Nagasu, American Figure Skater
29th - Aurelia Clasina Lucia Wildeboer, daughter of Pieter & Mirtle
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 59 of 59
1st - Alan Kulwicki, stock car racer, dies in plane crash at 38
1st - Ihsan Mohamed Salem, [Yunis Awad], Palestinian Al-Fatah leader, killed
1st - Juan of Borbon y Battemberg, father of king Juan Carlos I, dies
1st - Wayne Mack, sportscaster/actor (Storyville), dies of cancer at 68
2nd - Eugenie Leontovitch, actress (4 Sons, Homicidal), dies at 93
2nd - Klaas Schenk, Dutch speed skater/coach/father of Ard, dies at 86
3rd - Alexander Mnouchkine, French movie producer (Professional), dies at 83
3rd - Dieter Plage, German wildlife filmmaker, dies at 57
3rd - Eduardo Cabellero Calderon, Colombian writer/diplomat, dies at 83
3rd - Pinky Lee, kiddie host (Pinky Lee Show), dies of heart attack at 85
4th - Alfred Mosher Butts, US architect/game maker (Scrabble), dies at 93
4th - Bep [Alberta B] Ogterop, [Rita la Roche], singer, dies
6th - Divya Bharati, "Baby Doll" Indies actress (Diwana), dies in car at 19
6th - Hedi Amira Nouira, PM of Tunisia (1970-80), dies
7th - Max Croiset, Dutch actor/dramatist/director (Zeekant), dies at 80
7th - Richard Schmiechen, dies of AIDS at 45
7th - S C (Billy) Griffith, cricketer (England 1948-49, MCC sect), dies
8th - Arleen Whelan, dies of stroke at 78
8th - H Earnest, bishop of Breda, dies
8th - Marian Anderson, US contralto (My Lord, What a Morning), dies at 96
9th - Wouter Perquin, journalist/Dutch MP (KVP), dies at 74
10th - Chris Hani, sec-gen South Africian Communist Party, assassinated at 50
11th - Mohammed el-Himi, brigade-general of Egyptian police, murdered
11th - Rachmon Nabiyev, President of Tadzjikistan (1973..92), dies at 63
12th - Isaac Rojas, vp of Argentina (1955-58), dies
12th - Patience Jarvis, dies of melanoma at 56
13th - Barry Karas, dies of leukemia at 49
13th - Henny Budie, Dutch director/producer (Sterrenslag), dies
13th - Max Tripels, Dutch attorney/MP, dies at 72
14th - Jo Boer, Dutch painter/writer/author (Heir, dies at 85
14th - Sam Ntombani, ANC-secretary in Soweto South-Africa, shot to death
15th - George Ives, dies at 111
15th - H H "Bull" Alexander, cricketer (Test for Aust 1933, avg 154), dies
15th - Leslie Charteris, British mystery writer (Saint), dies at 85
15th - William Bakewell, dies of leukemia at 84
15th - John Tuzo Wilson, Canadian geologist (b. 1908)
16th - John P W Meefout, sculptor (Laying wife), dies at 77
17th - Turgut Özal, president of Turkey (1989-93), dies at 65
18th - Arthur P Smith, US founder of Miami Planetarium, dies at 76
18th - Masahiko Kimura, Japanese judoka (b. 1917)
19th - David Koresh, [Vernon Howell], cult leader (Davidians), suicide
19th - George Mickelson, Gov of SD, & 7 others, die in a plane crash
20th - Cantinflas, [Mario Moreno], Mexican actor (Pepe), dies at 81
21st - Hal Schumacher, baseball pitcher, dies at 82
22nd - Andries Treurnicht, founder S Afr Conservative Party, dies at 72
22nd - Cesar Chavez, US farm worker (United Farm Workers), dies at 66
22nd - Mark Koenig, baseball shortstop (NY Yankees), dies at 88
23rd - Bertus Aafjes, poet/writer (World is a Muze), dies at 78
23rd - Lalith Athulathmudali, Sri Lankan minister, murdered at 59
24th - Oliver R Tambo, chairman (African National Congress), dies at 75
25th - Rosita Moreno, actress (Walls of Gold), dies of heart attack at 85
27th - Hans Sahl, German/US writer (Tie Exil im Exil), dies at 90
28th - Jim Valvano, basketball coach (NC State), dies of cancer at 47
29th - Cy Howard, director (Lovers & Other Strangers), dies at 77
29th - Michael Gordon, actor/director (Pillow Talk), dies at 83
29th - Mick Ronson, English guitarist/producer (Mott the Hoople), dies at 46
30th - David Waymer, NFLer (Saints, 49'ers, Raiders), dies at 34
30th - Eric Rowan, cricketer (26 Tests for South Africa), dies
30th - Tommy Caton, English footballer (b. 1962)
