Today is Corey's Birthday 🎉
World-Changing Event: Intel introduced the Pentium family of 32-bit microprocessors.
The biggest song was Dreamlover by Mariah Carey
The Movies to Watch include Jurassic Park, Schindler’s List, Sleepless in Seattle, and Free Willy.
The Most Famous People in America were probably Denzel Washington and Julia Roberts.
Notable books include The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield and The Shipping News by E. Annie Prouls.
Sony (radio) Walkman: $29.98
Price of Domino’s large pizza, two toppings in 1993: $9.99
The Funny Guy was: Jeff Foxworthy
January: Bill Clinton was inaugurated as the 42nd President of the United States.
February: 1993 World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a van bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, killing six and injuring over 1,000.
March: Rodney King testified at the federal trial of four Los Angeles, California police officers accused of violating his civil rights when they beat him during an arrest.
April: the Waco siege ended in a fire at the Branch Davidian compound in Texas, resulting in the deaths of 76 people.
May: the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals that expert testimony must be based on the scientific knowledge established through the scientific method.
June: the Signing of the Oslo Accords marked the beginning of the peace process between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization.
July: the Great Flood of 1993 began in the Mississippi and Missouri River basins, resulting in widespread damage and dozens of deaths.
August: the Chemical Weapons Convention, which banned the production, stockpiling, and use of chemical weapons, came into force.
September: 47 people were killed in the Big Bayou Canot Rail Accident: An Amtrak Sunset Limited derails on a bridge that a barge had damaged near Mobile, Alabama. It is the deadliest train wreck in Amtrak’s history.
October: Actor River Phoenix died of drug-induced heart failure on the sidewalk outside the West Hollywood nightclub The Viper Room.
November: The Maastricht Treaty, which established the European Union, came into effect.
December: STS-61: NASA launched the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair an optical flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope.