About the day » Thursday April 8, 1993Calender converter

• Edwin Wijnholds, Ter Apelkanaal
• Mark Daniel Lyzenga, Chicago

• Alfred Desiré Marie van Damme (71), Kloosterzande,, Zeeland, Nederland
• Anja Johanna Koning (47), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Bennie Lewis (81)
• Adriana Maria Fransiscus Zwaans (88), Turnhout Belgie
• Albert Pieter Dotinga (83), Harlingen, Friesland, Nederland
• Boukje Beiboer (68), Heerenveen, Friesland, Nederland
• Bertus van Beelen (71), Terneuzen zl
• Ardina Maria Verstegen (86), Zeeland (N.Br.)
• Benjamin Jacob Schwartz (71), Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
• Berend Zikken (91)

• 1987 » Royston Drenthe, Dutch footballer
• 1988 » Jenni Asserholt, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1988 » Kim Myung-sung, South Korean baseball player
• 1990 » Kim Jong-hyun, South Korean singer († 2017)
• 1993 » Viktor Arvidsson, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1993 » Zac Santo, Australian rugby league player
• 1994 » Josh Chudleigh, Australian rugby league player
• 1995 » Cedi Osman, Turkish professional basketball player
• 1997 » Arno Verschueren, Belgian professional football player
• 1997 » Saygrace, Australian singer and songwriter

• 1990 » Ryan White, American activist, inspired the Ryan White Care Act (b. 1971)
• 1991 » Per Ohlin, Swedish musician (b. 1969)
• 1992 » Daniel Bovet, Swiss-Italian pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
• 1993 » Marian Anderson, American operatic singer (b. 1897)
• 1994 » François Rozet, French-Canadian actor (b. 1899)
• 1996 » Ben Johnson, American actor and stuntman (b. 1918)
• 1996 » León Klimovsky, Argentinian-Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1906)
• 1996 » Mick Young, Australian politician (b. 1936)
• 1997 » Laura Nyro, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1947)
• 2000 » František Šťastný, Czech motorcycle racer (b. 1927)

1. Jeroen
2. Thomas
3. Michael
4. Tim
5. Jan
6. Kevin
7. Bart
8. Robin
9. Dennis
10. Sander
11. Johannes
12. Mark
13. Jacob
14. Rick
15. Ruben
16. Hendrik

1. Iris
2. Lisa
3. Laura
4. Maria
5. Tessa
6. Melissa
7. Anna
8. Anne
9. Sanne
10. Sophie
11. Eline
12. Jessica
13. Sarah
14. Michelle
15. Kelly
16. Amanda

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 15.2 million citizens.
• April 30 » CERN announces World Wide Web protocols will be free.
• May 1 » Dingiri Banda Wijetunga became president of Sri Lanka automatically after killing of R Premadasa in LTTE bomb explosion.
• June 1 » Dobrinja mortar attack: Thirteen are killed and 133 wounded when Serb mortar shells are fired at a soccer game in Dobrinja, west of Sarajevo.
• July 22 » Great Flood of 1993: Levees near Kaskaskia, Illinois rupture, forcing the entire town to evacuate by barges operated by the Army Corps of Engineers.
• July 26 » Asiana Airlines Flight 733 crashes into a ridge on Mt. Ungeo on its third attempt to land at Mokpo Airport, South Korea. Sixty-eight of the 116 people onboard are killed.
• October 4 » Battle of Mogadishu occurs killing 18 U.S. Special Forces, two UN Peacekeepers and at least 600 Somalian militia men and civilians.

The temperature on April 8, 1993 was between -0.1 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (4%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.