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Born on Friday October 22, 1993
Died on Friday October 22, 1993

Source: Delpher (KB | national library) Newspapers from October 22, 1993 at Delpher


Born on October 22

Died on October 22
  • 1989 » Ewan MacColl, English singer-songwriter, producer, actor, and playwright (b. 1915)
  • 1989 » Jacob Wetterling, American kidnapping victim (b. 1978)
  • 1990 » Louis Althusser, Algerian-French philosopher and academic (b. 1918)
  • 1991 » Hachiro Kasuga, Japanese singer and actor (b. 1924)
  • 1992 » Cleavon Little, American actor (b. 1939)
  • 1992 » Red Barber, American sportscaster (b. 1908)
  • 1993 » Innes Ireland, English racing driver and engineer (b. 1930)
  • 1995 » Kingsley Amis, English novelist, poet, critic (b. 1922)
  • 1995 » Mary Wickes, American actress and singer (b. 1910)
  • 1997 » Leonid Amalrik, Russian animator, director, and screenwriter (b. 1905)

Names that were popular for boys in 1993
Names that were popular for girls in 1993

Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1993
  • 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.
  • February 8 » General Motors sues NBC after Dateline NBC allegedly rigs two crashes intended to demonstrate that some GM pickups can easily catch fire if hit in certain places. NBC settles the lawsuit the next day.
  • April 11 » Four hundred fifty prisoners rioted at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and continued to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions, as well as the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis) against their religious beliefs.
  • April 27 » Most of the Zambia national football team lose their lives in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon en route to Dakar, Senegal to play a 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Senegal.
  • May 24 » Roman Catholic Cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo and five other people are assassinated in a shootout at Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla Guadalajara International Airport in Mexico.
  • June 5 » Portions of the Holbeck Hall Hotel in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, UK, fall into the sea following a landslide.
  • November 20 » Savings and loan crisis: The United States Senate Ethics Committee issues a stern censure of California senator Alan Cranston for his "dealings" with savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating.
Weather October 22, 1993

The temperature on October 22, 1993 was between 4.3 °C and 9.4 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (39%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.

Source: KNMI