February 1993 calendar

Events

• 01 Feb 1993 New York Judge Sol Wachtler indicted for harassing Joy Silverman.
• 02 Feb 1993 Frito Lay pays court ordered $2,500,000 to Tom Wait for using his song
• 03 Feb 1993 Federal trial of four police officers charged with civil rights violations in videotaped beating of Rodney King begins in Los Angeles, California.
• 04 Feb 1993 Marge Schott suspended from baseball for 1 year due to racism
• 05 Feb 1993 U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Family and Medical Leave Act.
• 06 Feb 1993 Riddick Bowe TKOs Michael Dokes in one round for heavyweight boxing title.
• 07 Feb 1993 Pebbles Flintstone and Bamm Bamm Rubble wed
• 08 Feb 1993 GM sues NBC, alleging that Dateline NBC program had rigged 2 car-truck crashes to show that 1973-87 GM pickups were prone to fires
• 09 Feb 1993 Army of opium king Khun Sa kills 60 in northeast Burma.
• 10 Feb 1993 Michael Jackson Talks To Oprah Winfrey airs on ABC-TV and draws an astounding 39.3 rating/56 share, 90 million people.
• 11 Feb 1993 Janet Reno is nominated by President Bill Clinton as U.S. Attorney General.
• 12 Feb 1993 Two-year-old James Bulger is abducted, tortured and murdered by two 10-year-old boys, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson. Both are later charged. See Murder of James Bulger.
• 13 Feb 1993 Merlene Ottey runs world record 200 metre indoor (21.87 seconds).
• 14 Feb 1993 Fire in Linxi department store in Tangshan China, kills 79.
• 15 Feb 1993 Bomb strike on mafia drug lords in Bogot, Colombia; kills 14
• 16 Feb 1993 Sharon Disney, adopted daughter of Walt and Lillian Disney, dies of complications from cancer.
• 17 Feb 1993 Haitian ferry boat capsize in storm, killing approximately 1,215 out of 1,500 passengers.
• 19 Feb 1993 Kenya Moore, 22, (Miss Michigan), crowned 42nd Miss USA.
• 20 Feb 1993 Lisa Walters wins LPGA Itoki Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open.
• 21 Feb 1993 43rd NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 135-132 (overtime) at Salt Lake City.
• 22 Feb 1993 Vinod Kambli scores 224 versus England at Bombay, 411 balls, 23 fours.
• 23 Feb 1993 India complete a 3-0 series drubbing of England.
• 24 Feb 1993 35th Grammy Awards: "Tears in Heaven" - Eric Clapton wins.
• 25 Feb 1993 Fool Moon opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 207 performances
• 26 Feb 1993 2nd tallest building in world, NYC World Trade Center bombed, 7 die
• 27 Feb 1993 PBA National Championship Won by Ron Palombi Jr
• 28 Feb 1993 Anna Christie closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 54 performances

Famous Birthday

• Victoria Justice

  American actress, singer-songwriter, and dancer.

• Tinashe

  American singer-songwriter dancer and actress (The Stunners).

• Taylor Dooley

  American actress.

• Teresa Scanlan

  American model Miss America 2011.

• Marc Márquez

  Spanish motorcycle racer.

• Jennifer Stone

  American actress.

• Emmelie de Forest
• Mishon Ratliff

  TV Actor.

• Maria Ehrich
• Jessica Green

  TV Actress.

• Ravi (rapper)
• PO (rapper)
• Mauro Icardi

  Argentinian footballer.

• Loris Baz
• Alberto Rosende

  TV Actor.

• Geoffrey Kondogbia
• Rafinha (footballer born 1993)
• Getter Jaani

  Pop Singer.

• Ittybittyannie

  YouTube Star.

• Gabe Goodman

  American child actor.

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Famous Deaths

• Arthur Ashe

  American tennis player (Born 1943).

• Lillian Gish

  American actress and silent film star.

• Jean Lecanuet

  French politician, senator, minister, senator & mayor of rouen for 25 yrs.

• Eddie Constantine

  Actor (Alphaville, License to Kill), dies at 75.

• Joseph L Mankiewicz

  US writer/director/producer (All about Eve), dies at age 83 (born 1909).

• Ruby Keeler

  Canadian-American actress and dancer, she was the first of six kids raised in a New York tenement.

• Fletcher Knebel

  American novelist.

• Richard Salant

  news president (CBS - 60 Minutes), dies at age 78.

• Donald Phelps

  Dies of AIDS at 61.

• John Grossman

  Czech director (Process, Revisor).

• Constance Ford

  US actress (Another World, Burden Hunt), dies at age 64.

• Ishiro Honda

  Japanese director / producer (Godzilla), dies at 81.

• Joyce Carey [Lawrence]

  English actress (Number 27), dies at 94.

• Buddy Pepper

  Composer, dies of heart failure at 70.

• Edwin Louis Battle

  Actor (Almost Blue, Chase), dies of a stroke at 33.

• Ferrucci Lamborghini

  Car maker (Lamborghini), dies at 76.

• Agatha Hagtingius-Seger

  Dutch Author (Sparkles Chain), dies at 91.

• Fred Hollows

  New Zealand ophthalmologist (Born 1929).

• Jan D Boeke

  Dutch organist/conductor, dies.

• N Shanmugathasan

  Sri Lankan communist leader (Born 1920).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You
2. Shai - If I Ever Fall In Love
3. Peabo Bryson & Regina Bell - A Whole New World
4. Duran Duran - Ordinary World
5. Boyz II Men - In The Still Of The Nite (I'll Remember)

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. 2 Unlimited - No Limit
2. Shaggy - Oh Carolina
3. Annie Lennox - Little Bird / Love Song For A Vampire
4. Michael Jackson - Give In To Me
5. East 17 - Deep