January 10 » The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
April 25 » New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
May 3 » The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
September 7 » The Boxer Rebellion in Qing dynasty (modern-day China) officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
October 12 » President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House.
December 10 » The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.
Day of death March 20, 1993
The temperature on March 20, 1993 was between -1.4 °C and 12.2 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 11.0 hours of sunshine (91%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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.
March 12 » North Korea announces that it will withdraw from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and refuses to allow inspectors access to its nuclear sites.
May 10 » In Thailand, a fire at the Kader Toy Factory kills over 200 workers.
August 21 » NASA loses contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft.
August 28 » The Galileo spacecraft discovers a moon, later named Dactyl, around 243 Ida, the first known asteroid moon.
September 14 » Lufthansa Flight 2904, an Airbus A320, crashes into an embankment after overshooting the runway at Okęcie International Airport (now Warsaw Chopin Airport), killing two people.
October 3 » An American attack against a warlord in Mogadishu fails; eighteen US soldiers and over 350 Somalis die.
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