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U.S. President George H.W. Bush and his Soviet counterpart Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to eliminate chemical weapon production and begin the destruction of each nation's current inventory. -
Iraq invades its neighbor, Kuwait, setting into motion the beginning of U.S. involvement in the Gulf War. -
The Gulf War ends one day after Iraq withdraws its forces from Kuwait and sets the oil fields on fire. A cease fire is declared and Iraq accepts the condition of disarmament after one hundred hours of ground fighting.
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Russian leader Boris Yeltsin announces that they will stop targeting the cities of the United States with nuclear weapons. -
February 26, 1993 - The World Trade Center is bombed by Islamic terrorists when a van parked below the North Tower of the structure explodes. Six people are killed and over one thousand are injured.At 12:18 p.m., a terrorist bomb explodes in a parking garage of the World Trade Center in New York City, leaving a massive, multi-story crater and causing the collapse of several steel-reinforced concrete floors in the vicinity of the blast. -
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect, creating a free trade zone between Canada, the United States, and Mexico. -
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is created, replacing the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) formed from a series of post-war treaties on trade.
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One hundred and seventy nations decide to extend the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty indefinitely. -
At the Roslin Institute in Scotland, Dolly, the sheep, becomes the first mammal to be cloned. -
Shakur was struck by four . 40 caliber rounds fired from a Glock: two in the chest, one in the arm, and one in the thigh. He died from his wounds six days later. Link text
