Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 44 events. Showing 31 - 44.
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- The March 12 Memorandum is sent to the Demirel government of Turkey and the government resigns.
- Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
- Several bombs explode in Bombay (Mumbai), India, killing about 300 and injuring hundreds more.
- North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea says that it plans to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and refuses to allow inspectors access to its nuclear sites.
- The Blizzard of 1993: Snow begins to fall across the eastern portion of the US with tornadoes, thunder snow storms, high winds and record low temperatures. The storm lasts for 30 hours.
- Janet Reno is sworn in as the United States’ first female attorney general.
- The Church of England ordains its first female priests.
- Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.
- Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade.
- The President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, is impeached by its National Assembly: The first such impeachment in the nation’s history.
- Karolos Papoulias becomes President of Greece.
- Financier Bernard Madoff pleads guilty in New York to scamming $18 billion, the largest in Wall Street history.
- A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant melts and explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after Japan’s earthquake.
- An explosion in the New York City neighborhood of East Harlem kills 8 and injures 70 others.
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