Editing 1993 (section)

===October===
* [[October 3]]–[[October 4|4]]– [[Battle of Mogadishu (1993)|Battle of Mogadishu]]: The U.S. Army conducts [[Operation Gothic Serpent]] in the city of [[Mogadishu]], Somalia, deploying Task Force Ranger. Two U.S. Army [[UH-60 Blackhawk]]s are shot down and the operation leaves over 1,000 Somalians dead and over 74 Americans wounded in action, 18 killed and 1 captured.
* [[October 4]] – The [[1993 Russian constitutional crisis|Russian constitutional crisis]] culminates with Russian military and security forces, using tanks and clearing the [[White House of Russia]] Parliament building by force, quashing a mass uprising against President [[Boris Yeltsin]].
* [[October 5]] – China performs a [[nuclear test]], ending a worldwide ''de facto'' [[Moratorium (law)|moratorium]].
* [[October 9]] – The South Korean ferry ''[[Sinking of the MV Seohae|Seohae]]'' capsizes off [[Pusan]], South Korea; 292 are killed.
* [[October 11]]–[[October 28|28]] – The [[UNMIH]] is prevented from entering [[Haiti]] by its military-led regime. On [[October 18]], [[United Nations]] economic sanctions (abolished in August) are reinstated. U.S. President Bill Clinton sends 6 American warships to enforce them.
* [[October 13]]
** [[1993 Greek legislative election]]: [[Andreas Papandreou]] begins his second term as [[Prime Minister of Greece]].
** The fifth summit of the [[Organisation internationale de la Francophonie|Francophonie]] opens in [[Mauritius]].
** The [[1993 Finisterre earthquakes]] in Papua New Guinea kill at least 60 due to landslides.<ref name="USGS">{{cite web |title=M 6.9 - 47 km NNE of Kainantu, Papua New Guinea |url=https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usp00061w1/executive |website=earthquake.usgs.gov |publisher=[[U.S. Geological Survey]] |access-date=11 October 2021 |archive-date=October 8, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221008080304/https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usp00061w1/executive |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[October 19]] – [[Benazir Bhutto]] becomes the Prime Minister of Pakistan for the second time.
* [[October 21]] – A coup in [[Burundi]] results in the death of president [[Melchior Ndadaye]] and sparks the [[Burundi Civil War]].
* [[October 25]] – [[1993 Canadian federal election]]: [[Jean Chrétien]] and his [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal Party]] defeat the governing [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative Party]], which falls to a historic low of two seats.
* [[October 27]]–[[October 31|31]] – The Southland Firestorm, formed of more than fourteen separate fires in Southern California burning simultaneously, burns more than 700 homes and 160,000 acres.<ref>{{cite news |title=THE SOUTHLAND FIRESTORM / DAY FIVE: The Southland Fires | url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-10-31-mn-51791-story.html|newspaper=[[LA Times]]|date=1993-10-31|access-date=2024-01-02}}</ref>  Two of these fire are the [[Laguna Fire (1993)|Laguna Fire]] which burned more than 16,000 acres (6,500 hectares), destroyed hundreds of homes and caused $528 million in damage in [[Orange County, California]], and the [[Kinneloa Fire]] in [[Los Angeles County, California]] which caused a fatality.