Today in History for February 1993
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Months in 1993: January March April May June July August September October November December
Historical Events
Results 1 - 62 of 62
1st - NY Judge Sol Wachtler indicted for harassing Joy Silverman
1st - Soyuz TM-16 lands
2nd - Frito Lay pays court ordered $2,500,000 to Tom Wait for using his song
2nd - Irina Privalova runs world record 50m indoor (6.05 sec)
3rd - Cin Red owner Marge Schott suspended for 1 year due to racist comments
3rd - General Hospital's Tristan Rogers convicted of drunk driving
3rd - Federal trial of 4 police officers charged with civil rights violations in videotaped beating of Rodney King begins in LA Calif
4th - Admiral Studeman, ends term as acting director of CIA
4th - Marge Schott suspended from baseball for 1 year due to racism
4th - Russian space agency tests a 82' wide space mirror
5th - Grenade explodes in Sarajevo, killing 63 & injuring 160
5th - R James Woolsey, becomes 16th director of CIA
6th - 44th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 16-6 at Montreal
6th - Riddick Bowe TKOs Michael Dokes in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
7th - NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 23-20
7th - Pebbles Flintstone & Bamm Bamm Rubble wed
7th - Tammie Green wins LPGA Healthsouth Palm Beach Golf Classic
8th - Suchoi-24 crashes into Tupolev passenger flight, 134 die
8th - GM sues NBC, alleging that "Dateline NBC" program had rigged 2 car-truck crashes to show that 1973-87 GM pickups were prone to fires
9th - Army of opium king Khun Sa kills 60 in NE Burma
10th - Jani Sievinen swims world record 200m backstroke (1:55.59)
10th - US officially backs peace plan in Bosnia
10th - "Michael Jackson Talks To Oprah Winfrey" airs on ABC & drew an astounding 39.3 rating/56 share, 90 million people
11th - Howard Stern's radio show begins transmitting to Rochester NY (WRQI)
11th - Irina Privalova runs world record 60m indoor (6.92 secs)
11th - Janet Reno selected by Clinton as US Attorney General
13th - Ljubow Kremljowa runs world record 1000m indoor (2:34:84)
13th - Merlene Ottey runs world record 200m indoor (21.87 sec)
13th - Sergei Bubka pole vaults indoor record (6.14 m)
14th - Fire in Linxi department store in Tangshan China, kills 79
15th - Bomb strike on mafia drug lords in Bogot , Colombia; kills 14
15th - Bombings by mafia drug lords kill 14 in Bogota Colombia
15th - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Rochester NY on WNVE 95.1 FM
15th - Katie Elizabeth Hillyard was born, famous English young composer of the year 2007.England
16th - Sandra V"lker swims world record 50m backstroke (28.33 sec)
16th - Western Australia's and Australia's first woman Premier, Carmen Lawrence, is voted out of office.
17th - Haitian ferry boat capsize in storm, 800-2,000 die
17th - Mark Foster swims world record 50m free style (21.60 sec)
18th - Howard Stern's radio show begins transmitting to Rochester NY
19th - Kenya Moore, 22, (Michigan), crowned 42nd Miss USA
20th - Florida Marlins open their 1st spring training camp
20th - Lisa Walters wins LPGA Itoki Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
20th - NY Islanders retire Billy Smith's number 31
21st - 43rd NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 135-132 (OT) at Salt Lake City
21st - Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record indoor (6.15 m)
22nd - Vinod Kambli scores 224 v England at Bombay, 411 balls, 23 fours
23rd - Gary Coleman wins $1,280,000 lawsuit against parents for high fees
23rd - India complete a 3-0 series drubbing of England
23rd - Sacramento Gold Miners admitted as CFL's 9th franchise (1st US team)
24th - 35th Grammy Awards: Tears in Heaven, Eric Clapton wins
25th - "Fool Moon" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 207 performances
25th - Florida Marlins introduce their mascot "Billy"
25th - Pakistan all out 43 v West Indies, world one-day int record low
26th - 2nd tallest building in world, NYC World Trade Center bombed, 7 die
26th - 9th Soap Opera Digest Awards
26th - Allan Border beats Gavaskar's record for most Test Cricket runs 10,123
27th - PBA National Championship Won by Ron Palombi Jr
28th - "Anna Christie" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 54 performances
28th - 7th American Comedy Award: Seinfeld wins
28th - Gun battle erupts at Waco Texas between FBI & Branch Davidians
28th - Iolanda Chen triple jumps world indoor record hop step (14.46m)
28th - Tony Curtis weds Lisa Deutsch as his 4th wife
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 5 of 5
7th - David Dorfman, American actor
7th - Philip Wiegratz, German actor
12th - Jennifer Stone, American actress
19th - Victoria Justice, American Actress notably for her roles in The Suite Life Of Zack And Cody, and as Lola Martinez in Nickelodeon show Zoey 101
26th - Taylor Dooley, American actress
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 65 of 65
3rd - Karel Goeyvaerts, Flemish composer (8 Horse Bet), dies at 69
5th - Jack Young, cricketer (8 Tests for England 1947-49, 17 wickets), dies
5th - Joseph L Mankiewicz, US writer/director (All about Eve), dies at 83
5th - Tip Tipping, [Tim], stuntman, dies in sky-diving accident at 34
5th - Marcel Léger, Quebec politician (b. 1930)
6th - Frances Hunt, actress (You're a Sweetheart), dies of stroke at 77
7th - Arthur Ashe, tennis star (Wimbledon 1975), dies of AIDS at 49
7th - W Sybout A Colenbrander, Dutch historian/journalist, dies at 82
8th - Casper van den Berg, Dutch poet (Fashionable inconvenience), dies
8th - Douglas Heyes, director/writer (Kitten with a Whip), dies at 73
8th - Eliot Janeway, financial columnist (Eliot Doomsday), dies at 80
8th - Franz Schnyder, Swiss director (10th of May), dies at 82
8th - Paul Brickhill, Dutch/US WW II pilot/physician, dies
8th - N. Shanmugathasan, Sri Lankan communist leader
9th - David Willis, British journalist (BBC World Service), dies at 54
9th - Kate Wilkinson, actress (Clara-Another World), dies of cancer at 76
9th - Nasrullah Mansoor, Afghan guerilla leader/governor of Paktia, dies
10th - John Grossman, Czech director (Process, Revisor), dies
10th - Joy Garrett, actress (Days of Our Live), dies of liver failure at 47
10th - Maurice Bourges-Maunoury, PM of France (1957), dies
10th - Fred Hollows, New Zealand ophthalmologist (b. 1929)
11th - George A Stephen, inventor (Weber Kettle Grill), dies at 71
11th - Joy Garrett, actress (Days of Our Lives), dies of liver failure
11th - Oksana Kostina, Russian gymnist, dies in an auto accident
12th - James Bulger, English child beaten to death at 2, by 10 yr old boys
13th - Agatha Hagtingius-Seger, Dutch author (Sparkles Chain), dies at 91
14th - Buddy Pepper, composer, dies of heart failure at 70
15th - George Wallington, [Giacinto Figlia], Italian bebop-pianist/, dies
16th - Donald Phelps, dies of AIDS at 61
16th - Richard Salant, news president (CBS-60 Minutes), dies at 78
17th - Alfredo de Leon, leader (Philippines Red Scorpio Gang), killed
17th - George E Wilburn, film editor, dies of emphysema at 77
17th - Leslie Townsend, cricket all-rounder (Engld in 4 Tests 1930-34), dies
18th - Edward S "Ted" Haworth, US set designer (Sayonara, Marty), dies at 76
18th - Jacqueline Hill, dies of cancer at 63
18th - Leslie Norman, English director/producer (Dunkirk), dies at 82
18th - Michael David Morrison, actor (Caleb-As the World Turns), dies at 33
18th - Kerry Von Erich, American professional wrestler (b. 1960)
19th - Gerhard Gesell, judge (Pentagon Papers), dies of liver cancer at 82
19th - Michael Morrison, actor (Caleb-As the World Turns), dies at 33
20th - Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian auto-designer (Miura), dies
21st - Ferrucci Lamborghini, car maker (Lamborghini), dies at 76
22nd - Jean Lecanuet, French UDF-presidential candidate, dies at 72
22nd - Pieter A H Bos, Dutch lawyer/procureur-general (Aruba), dies at 63
23rd - Edwin Louis Battle, actor (Almost Blue, Chase), dies of stroke at 33
24th - Bobby Moore, English soccer team capt (World champs 1966), dies
24th - Toy Caldwell, guitarist (Marshall Tucker Band), dies at 45
24th - Danny Gallivan, Canadian radio and television sportscaster (b. 1917)
25th - Eddie Constantine, actor (Alphaville, License to Kill), dies at 75
25th - Jan D Boeke, Dutch organist/conductor, dies
25th - Jean G H "Sjeng" Tans, Dutch PM (social dem, 1965-69), dies
25th - John D Boeke, organist/conductor, dies
25th - Troy Caldwell, country musician (Marshall Tucker Band), dies at 45
25th - Mary Walter, Filipino actress (b. 1912)
26th - Constance Ford, US actress (Another World, Burden Hunt), dies at 64
26th - Fletcher Knebel, author (7 Days in May), commits suicide at 81
26th - Mark Kolthoff, Dutch painter/photographer, dies at 92
27th - Jose Duval, actor (Juan Valdez), dies at 72
27th - Lillian Gish, US actress (Birth of a Nation), dies at 96
27th - Ruby Keeler, actress (42nd Street), dies of cancer at 83
28th - Fer A Olthoff, Dutch WW II resistance fighter (Het Parool), dies
28th - Franco Brusati, Italian dir/writer (Bread & Chocolate), dies at 70
28th - Ishiro Honda, Japanese director/producer (Godzilla), dies at 81
28th - Joyce Carey, [Lawrence], English actress (Number 27), dies at 94
28th - Ruby Keeler, actress (42nd Street, Dames), dies of cancer at 82

