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1993-1-5
"The oil tanker MV Braer runs aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands, spilling 84,700 tons of crude oil."
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1993
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"The oil tanker MV Braer runs aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands, spilling 84,700 tons of crude oil."
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1/1 - 12 member European Economic Community set up vast free trade zone
1/1 - "Blockbuster Bowl 3: Stanford beats Penn State, 24-3"
1/1 - Cigarette advertisements are banned in NYC's MTA
1/1 - Czechoslovakia separates into Czech Republic (Bohemia) & Slovakia
1/2 - Gypsy Passion closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 55 performances
1/3 - Junk bond king Michael Milkin is released from jail after 22 months
1/3 - Tommy Tune Tonite! closes at Gershwin NYC after 10 performances
1/3 - Secret Garden closes at St James Theater NYC after 706 performances
1/3 - Lost in Yonkers closes at Richard Rodgers NYC after 780 perfs
1/3 - Christmas Carol closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 22 perfs
1/3 - Catskills on Broadway closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 452 perfs
1/4 - "7th largest wrestling crowd (63,500-Tokyo Dome)"
1/5 - Washington state executes Westley Allan Dodd by hanging (the first legal hanging in America since 1965).
1/5 - "The oil tanker MV Braer runs aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands, spilling 84,700 tons of crude oil."
1/5 - Reggie Jackson elected to Hall of Fame
1/5 - Price is Right model Janice Pennington sues CBS for show accident
1/5 - Brian Lara completes 277 v Australia at cricket SCG
1/6 - Last day of Test cricket for Greg Matthews
1/6 - Jean Mueller discovers comet Mueller/1993a
1/6 - Bill Wyman announces he will leave Rolling Stones
1/7 - The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as President.
1/8 - Elvis Presley Commemorative Postage Stamp goes on sale
1/8 - "NBC offers ""Tonight Show"" to David Letterman"
1/9 - Franziska van Almsick swims world record 100 m free style (53.33)
1/10 - My Favorite Year closes at Vivian Beaumont NYC after 37 perfs
1/10 - Sea Gull closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 48 performances
1/10 - Maiden flight of Ultrair (Houston to LA)
1/11 - Independent pres candidate Ross Perot publicly returns to politics
1/11 - Howard Stern's radio show begins transmitting to Buffalo NY (WKBW)
1/12 - Doctors announce Pitts Penguin Mario Limeux has Hodgkin's disease
1/13 - STS-54 (Endeavour) launches into orbit
1/13 - Super Bowl XXVII in Pasadena - Cowboys beat Bills
1/14 - Anna Christie opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 54 performances
1/14 - David Letterman announces his show is moving from NBC to CBS
1/14 - "Polish ferry boat capsizes in storm, 50 die"
1/15 - "Top mafia leader Salvatore ""Toto"" Riina arrested in Palermo"
1/15 - "Soap opera ""Santa Barbara"" final show on NBC TV"
1/17 - 14th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 32 awards
1/17 - "Russian Irina Privalova cycles world record 300m indoor (35.45"")"
1/18 - Martin Luther King Jr holiday observed in all 50 states for 1st time
1/18 - "West Indies win the World Series Cup, beating Australia 2-0"
1/19 - STS-54 (Endeavour) lands
1/19 - "Robert M Gates, ends term as 15th director of CIA"
1/19 - Oakland A's unveil new elephant logo
1/19 - Israel recognizes PLO as no longer criminal
1/20 - "Adm Studeman, serves as acting director of CIA"
1/20 - Bill Clinton inaugurated as 42nd US President
1/21 - Johan Koss skates world record 5 km in 6:38.77
1/21 - Nigerian singer Fela Kuti arrested on suspicion of murder
1/23 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Nancy Kerrigan
1/23 - NY Newsday reports Ore Sen Bob Packwood sexually harassed 23 women
1/23 - "Indian Airlines B737 crashes art Aurangabad, 61 die"
1/23 - "Graham Gooch scores his 100th 100, on tour at Cuttack"
1/23 - "50th Golden Globes: Scent of a Woman, wins"
1/24 - "14th annual star-athon $24,000,000"
1/24 - "Polish ferry boat John Heweliusz sinks, 52 killed"
1/24 - Soyuz TM-16 launches
1/24 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Davis
1/24 - Turkish journalist and writer Uﾄ殷r Mumcu is assassinated by a car bomb in Ankara.
1/25 - "Five people were shot outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia resulting in two murders."
1/25 - Sears announces it is closing its catalog sales dept after 97 years
1/25 - Puerto Rico adds English as its 2nd official language
1/25 - "20th American Music Award: Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey win"
1/27 - "DC-3 crashes in Kinshasa, killing 12"
1/29 - "Test debut of Vinod Kambli, prolific Indian batsman"
1/30 - "100,000 Europeans demonstrate against fascism & racism"
1/30 - 67th Australian Women's Tennis Open: Monica Seles beat Graf (4-6 6-3 6-2)
1/31 - St Joan opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 49 performances
1/31 - 81st Australian Mens Tennis: Jim Courier beats S Edberg (62 61 26 75)
1/31 - "Super Bowl XXVII: Dallas Cowboys beat Buffalo Bills, 52-17 in Pasadena Super Bowl MVP: Troy Aikman, Dallas, QB"