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Jan 1, 1993 - Col Stachel leaves and Col Garry L. Willis assumes command of CAMP ATTERBURY. Jan 7, 1993 - The US claimed that Saddam Hussein moved surface-to-air missiles into southern Iraq. Baghdad refused to remove them and allied warplanes attacked the missile sites and warships fired cruise missiles at a nuclear facility near Baghdad. Jan 15, 1993 - In Paris, a historic disarmament ceremony ended with the last of 125 countries signing a treaty banning chemical weapons. Jan 20, 1993 - Bill Clinton was sworn in as the 42nd president of the United States; Al Gore was sworn in as vice president. The Senate confirmed Lloyd Bentsen as treasury secretary, Les Aspin as defense secretary and Warren Christopher as secretary of state. Jan 30, 1993 - On the 60th anniversary of Hitler's swearing-in as chancellor of Germany, more than 300,000 Germans carried candles to denounce the Nazi era. |
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Feb 27, 1993 - New York City: bomb exploded in basement garage of World Trade Center; killing six and injuring at least 1,040 others. In 1995, militant Islamist Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and nine others were convicted of conspiracy charges, and in 1998, Ramzi Yousef, believed to have been the mastermind, was convicted of the bombing. Al-Qaeda involvement is suspected. Feb 28, 1993 - Agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms raided the ranch of the Branch Davidian sect under David Koresh in Waco, Texas. A shootout followed when Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents tried to serve warrants on the Branch Davidians; four agents and six Davidians were killed as a 51-day standoff began. |
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April 13, 1993 - NATO forces began combat patrols over Bosnia to enforce a UN ban on flights. April 19, 1993 - The 51-day siege at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, ended as fire destroyed the structure after federal agents began smashing their way in; dozens of people, including leader David Koresh, were killed. In 1999 the FBI admitted that it used incendiary tear gas canisters but still maintained that it did not start the fire. |
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June 27, 1993 - US warships fired 24 Tomahawk cruise missiles at intelligence headquarters in Baghdad in retaliation for the assassination plot. The Iraqis claimed 8 dead. Iraqis pulled their dead from the rubble of buildings wrecked by U.S. missiles during an early morning raid ordered by President Clinton in reprisal for an alleged assassination plot against former President Bush. |
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July 26, 1993 - Ret. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgeway died in Fox Chapel, Pa., at age 98. |
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Aug 11, 1993 - President Clinton named Army Gen. John Shalikashvili to be the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, succeeding the retiring Gen. Colin Powell. |
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Sept 27, 1993 - Retired Gen. James H. Doolittle died in Pebble Beach, Calif., at age 96. |
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Oct 3, 1993 - Eighteen US Rangers and Delta Force specialists died in a botched raid in Somalia. In 1999 Mark Bowden published "Black Hawk Dawn," an account of the failed attempt to capture Mohammed Farrah Aidid. |
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Nov 11, 1993 - A bronze statue honoring the more than 11,000 American women who had served in the Vietnam War was dedicated in Washington, D.C. |
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Dec 13, 1993 - The space shuttle Endeavor returned from its mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
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