The temperature on August 17, 1993 was between 11.7 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was 13.7 hours of sunshine (94%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
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.
January 1 » Dissolution of Czechoslovakia: Czechoslovakia is divided into the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic.
January 2 » Sri Lankan Civil War: The Sri Lanka Navy kill 35–100 civilians on the Jaffna Lagoon.
May 24 » Eritrea gains its independence from Ethiopia.
August 1 » The Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood of 1993 comes to a peak.
September 21 » Russian President Boris Yeltsin triggers a constitutional crisis when he suspends parliament and scraps the constitution.
November 18 » In the United States, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is approved by the House of Representatives.
Day of burial August 23, 1993
The temperature on August 23, 1993 was between 8.5 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 12.1 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (34%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
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.
January 5 » The oil tanker MV Braer runs aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands, spilling 84,700 tons of crude oil.
January 7 » The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as President.
March 24 » Discovery of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9.
April 21 » The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis García Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.
October 30 » The Troubles: Loyalists carry out a mass shooting at a Halloween party in Greysteel, Northern Ireland, killing six Catholics and two Protestants.
November 23 » Rachel Whiteread wins both the £20,000 Turner Prize award for best British modern artist and the £40,000 K Foundation art award for the worst artist of the year.
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