page_title: 1993
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 1993 / Events / January
caption_attribution_description: English: Official White House photo of President Bill Clinton, President of the United States. Русский: Президент США Билл Клинтон, официальное фото Белого дома Ελληνικά: Επίσημη φωτογραφία Λευκού Οίκου του Προέδρου Μπιλ Κλίντον, Προέδρου των ΗΠΑ
context_page_description: 1993 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1993rd year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 993rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 93rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1990s decade.
context_section_description: January 1
  Czechoslovakia ceases to exist as the Czech Republic and Slovakia separate in the so-called Velvet Divorce.
  The European Economic Community eliminates trade barriers and creates a European single market.
  Euronews, a multilingual television news channels in Europe, officially launched.
  January 2 – Sri Lankan Civil War: The Sri Lanka Navy kills 35–100 civilians on the Jaffna Lagoon.
  January 3 – In Moscow, Presidents George H. W. Bush (United States) and Boris Yeltsin (Russia) sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.
  January 5
  US$7.4 million is stolen from the Brink's Armored Car Depot in Rochester, New York, in the fifth largest robbery in U.S. history.
  MV Braer, a Liberian-registered oil tanker, runs aground off the Scottish island of Mainland, Shetland, causing a massive oil spill.
  January 6
  Douglas Hurd is the first high-ranking British official to visit Argentina since the Falklands War.
  January 6–20 – The Bombay riots take place in Mumbai.
  January 7 – The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated, with Jerry Rawlings as president.
  January 8–17 – The Braer Storm of January 1993, the most intense extratropical cyclone on record for the northern Atlantic Ocean, occurs.
  January 13 – The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) is signed.
  January 14 – The Polish ferry MS Jan Heweliusz sinks off the coast of Rügen in the Baltic Sea, killing 54 people.
  January 19
  IBM announces a $4.97 billion loss for 1992, the largest single-year corporate loss in United States history to date.
  Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq refuses to allow UNSCOM inspectors to use its own aircraft to fly into Iraq and begins military operations in the demilitarized zone between Iraq and Kuwait, and the northern Iraqi no-fly zones. U.S. forces fire approximately 40 Tomahawk cruise missiles at Baghdad factories linked to Iraq's illegal nuclear weapons program. Iraq then informs UNSCOM that it will be able to resume its flights.
  January 20 – Bill Clinton is sworn in as the 42nd President of the United States.
  January 22 – A major low-cost carrier of Europe, Norwegian Air Shuttle was founded.
  January 24 – In Turkey, thousands protest the murder of journalist Uğur Mumcu.
  January 25 – Social Democrat Poul Nyrup Rasmussen succeeds Conservative Poul Schlüter as Prime Minister of Denmark.
  January 26 – Václav Havel is elected President of the Czech Republic.
caption: January 20: Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States
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