Editing 1993 (section)

===March===
* [[March 5]] – [[Republic of Macedonia|Macedonian]] [[Palair]] [[Palair Macedonian Airlines Flight 301|Flight 301]], an [[Fokker 100|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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.idialstars.com/clfumo.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081215031654/http://www.idialstars.com/clfumo.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 15, 2008|title=Closest Full Moon since March 8, 1993}}</ref>
* [[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.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/12/us/reno-is-confirmed-in-top-justice-job.html|title=Reno is confirmed in top justice job|last=Ifill|first=Gwen|date=March 12, 1993|work=The New York Times|access-date=August 27, 2018|language=en|archive-date=June 24, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180624010549/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/12/us/reno-is-confirmed-in-top-justice-job.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[March 12]]
** [[1993 Bombay bombings]]: Several bombs explode in [[Mumbai|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 [[1994 North Korean nuclear crisis|1993-94 North Korean Nuclear Crisis]].
* [[March 13]]–[[March 15|15]] – The [[1993 Storm of the Century|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.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Armstrong|first1=Tim|title=Superstorm of 1993: "Storm of the Century"|url=http://www.weather.gov/ilm/Superstorm93|website=NOAA|access-date=February 12, 2017|archive-date=July 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210714033914/https://www.weather.gov/ilm/Superstorm93|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[March 13]] – [[1993 Australian federal election]]: [[Paul Keating]]'s [[Australian Labor Party|Labor]] [[Keating government|government]] is re-elected with an increased majority, defeating the [[Liberal Party of Australia|Liberal]]/[[National Party of Australia|National]] [[Coalition (Australia)|Coalition]] led by [[John Hewson]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://australianpolitics.com/elections/federal-1993|title=1993 Federal Election &#124; AustralianPolitics.com|website=australianpolitics.com|access-date=February 23, 2021|archive-date=February 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224101728/https://australianpolitics.com/elections/federal-1993|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[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 [[South Africa and weapons of mass destruction|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 [[Integrism|integrist]] murders (including those of foreigners), [[Algeria]] breaks [[Algeria–Iran relations|diplomatic relations with Iran]], accusing the country of interfering in its interior affairs.
** [[Mahamane Ousmane]] is elected president of [[Niger]].
* [[March 28]] – [[1993 French legislative election]]: [[Rally for the Republic]] (Gaullist party) wins a majority and [[Édouard Balladur]] becomes [[Prime Minister of France|Prime Minister]].
* [[March 29]] – The [[65th Academy Awards]], hosted by [[Billy Crystal]], are held at the [[Dorothy Chandler Pavilion]] in [[Los Angeles]], with ''[[Unforgiven]]'' winning [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]].