What are some things that happened 14 years ago? Nothing really to exciting according to Wikipedia...
- January 31 - The Buffalo Bills become the first team to lose 3 consecutive Super Bowls as they are defeated by the Dallas Cowboys, 52-17, in Super Bowl XXVII.
- February 23 - Actor Gary Coleman wins a $1,280,000 lawsuit against his parents. (Whatcha talking about Willis?)
- February 26 - World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a van bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center goes off, killing 6 and injuring over 1,000.
- March 13 - The Great Blizzard of 1993 strikes the eastern U.S., bringing record snowfall and other severe weather all the way from Cuba to Québec; it is reported to have killed 184.
- April 30 - The World Wide Web is born at CERN. (Thanks Al Gore!)
- May 10 - World's worst factory fire at the Kader Toy Factory in Thailand kills 188.
- June 6 - I graduated high school!
- July 27 - Windows NT 3.1, the first version of Microsoft's line of Windows NT operating systems, is released to manufacturing. (I think I used 3.1 when I started teaching in 2000.)
- August 30 - The Late Show with David Letterman premieres on CBS.
- September 13 - PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin shake hands in Washington D.C., after signing a peace accord. (That has really worked out well, don't you think?!)
- October - The U.S. Internal Revenue Service grants full religious recognition and tax exemption to all Church of Scientology missions and social betterment groups.
- November 11 - Microsoft releases Windows 3.11 for Workgroups to manufacturing.
- December 2 - STS-61: NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair an optical flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope.
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