Editing 1993 (section)

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{{Events by month|1993}}
[[File:1993 Events Collage.png|From left, clockwise: [[Ramzi Yousef]] and other [[Islamic terrorism|Islamic terrorists]] [[1993 World Trade Center bombing|detonate a truck bomb]] in the subterranean garage of [[List of tenants in 1 World Trade Center (1971–2001)|the North Tower]] of the [[World Trade Center (1973–2001)|World Trade Center]] in [[New York City]], killing 7 also known as the World Trade Center bombing; the [[White House (Moscow)|Russian White House]] is shelled during a [[1993 Russian constitutional crisis|constitutional crisis]] after Russian president [[Boris Yeltsin]] imposed a [[self-coup]]; [[Czechoslovakia]] is peacefully [[Dissolution of Czechoslovakia|dissolved]] into the [[Czech Republic]] and [[Slovakia]]; in the U.S., the [[ATF]] [[Waco siege|besieges]] a compound belonging to [[David Koresh]] and the [[Branch Davidians]] in a search for illegal weapons, which ends in the building being set alight and killing most inside; [[Eritrea]] overwhelmingly votes to gain [[1993 Eritrean independence referendum|independence]] from [[Ethiopia]]; [[1993 Storm of the Century|a major snow storm]] passes over the [[United States|U.S.]] and [[Canada]], leading to 318 fatalities; [[drug lord]] and [[narcoterrorism|narcoterrorist]] [[Pablo Escobar]] is killed by [[Military Forces of Colombia|Colombian special forces]]; the [[Oslo I Accord]] is signed in an attempt to resolve the [[Israeli–Palestinian conflict]].|300x300px|thumb|right]]
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{{Year article header|1993}}

The [[United Nations General Assembly|General Assembly of the United Nations]] designated 1993 as:
* International Year for the World's Indigenous People<ref>{{cite web |title=International Year for the World's Indigenous People, 1993 : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly |url=https://www.refworld.org/legal/resolution/unga/1992/en/29286 |website=UNHCR |access-date=27 May 2025}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/22/world/in-marshall-islands-friday-is-followed-by-sunday.html |title=In Marshall Islands, Friday Is Followed by Sunday |work=[[New York Times]] |author=[[Associated Press]] |date=August 22, 1993 |access-date=May 8, 2022 |df=dmy-all |archive-date=October 11, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011093207/http://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/22/world/in-marshall-islands-friday-is-followed-by-sunday.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

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