Editing 1993 (section)

===December===
{{Main|December 1993}}
* [[December 2]]
** ''[[STS-61]]'': [[NASA]] launches the Space Shuttle ''[[Space Shuttle Endeavour|Endeavour]]'' on a mission to repair an optical flaw in the [[Hubble Space Telescope]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Dumoulin |first=Jim |title=STS-61 |url=https://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-61/mission-sts-61.html |date=29 June 2001 |publisher=[[NASA]] |access-date=15 October 2021 |archive-date=October 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211027182700/https://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-61/mission-sts-61.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
** [[Colombia]]n drug lord [[Pablo Escobar]] is gunned down by police.<ref>{{cite book |title=DEA History Book |chapter=1990 - 1994 |chapter-url=http://www.dea.gov/pubs/history/1990-1994.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060118010530/http://www.dea.gov/pubs/history/1990-1994.html |archive-date=18 January 2006 |publisher=[[U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration]] |access-date=15 October 2021}}</ref>
* [[December 5]]
** [[Omar Bongo]] is re-elected as [[President of Gabon]] in the country's first multiparty elections.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://africanelections.tripod.com/ga.html |title=Elections in Gabon |work=African Elections Database |date=20 February 2012 |access-date=15 October 2021 |archive-date=October 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211016084948/https://africanelections.tripod.com/ga.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
** [[Rafael Caldera Rodríguez]] is elected President of Venezuela for the second time, succeeding interim president [[Ramón José Velásquez]].<ref>{{cite web |editor-last=Ortiz de Zárate |editor-first=Roberto |title=Rafael Caldera Rodríguez |department=Venezuela |date=24 January 2019 |publisher=[[Fundación CIDOB]] |language=es |url=https://www.cidob.org/biografias_lideres_politicos/america_del_sur/venezuela/rafael_caldera_rodriguez |access-date=15 October 2021 |archive-date=October 28, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211028170530/https://www.cidob.org/biografias_lideres_politicos/america_del_sur/venezuela/rafael_caldera_rodriguez |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[December 7]]
** In [[Garden City, New York]], six people are murdered and 19 injured in the [[Long Island Rail Road massacre]], a racially motivated mass shooting perpetrated by Colin Ferguson, a black Jamaican immigrant.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1993/12/09/ny-train-killings-suspect-was-motivated-by-bias/37c1df9a-fb70-48d9-b176-81d3352e2fb7/?noredirect=on |last1=Gladwell |first1=Malcolm |author-link1=Malcolm Gladwell |last2=Stassen-Berger |first2=Rachel E. |title=N.Y. Train Killings Suspect Was 'Motivated By Bias' |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=December 9, 1993 |access-date=15 October 2021 |archive-date=December 26, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181226084417/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1993/12/09/ny-train-killings-suspect-was-motivated-by-bias/37c1df9a-fb70-48d9-b176-81d3352e2fb7/?noredirect=on |url-status=live }}</ref>
** The 32-member Transitional Executive Committee holds its first meeting<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/25451/ |last1=Padaychee |first1=Vishnu |last2=Fine |first2=Ben |author-link2=Ben Fine |title=The role and influence of the IMF on economic policy in South Africa's transition to democracy: the 1993 CCFF revisited |journal=Review of African Political Economy |date=July 2, 2018 |volume=46 |issue=159 |pages=157–167 |doi=10.1080/03056244.2018.1484352 |s2cid=158444181 |access-date=15 October 2021 |via=SOAS Research Online |archive-date=October 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211026204610/https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/25451/ |url-status=live |hdl=10.1080/03056244.2018.1484352 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> in [[Cape Town]], marking the first meeting of an official government body in South Africa with Black members.
** [[List of heads of state of Ivory Coast|President of Ivory Coast]] [[Félix Houphouët-Boigny]] dies at 88, the oldest African head of state.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/08/obituaries/felix-houphouet-boigny-ivory-coast-s-leader-since-freedom-in-1960-is-dead.html |last=Noble |first=Kenneth B. |title=Felix Houphouet-Boigny, Ivory Coast's Leader Since Freedom in 1960, Is Dead |journal=[[The New York Times]] |date=8 December 1993 |access-date=15 October 2021 |archive-date=October 29, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211029180545/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/08/obituaries/felix-houphouet-boigny-ivory-coast-s-leader-since-freedom-in-1960-is-dead.html |url-status=live }}</ref> He is succeeded four days later by [[Henri Konan Bédié]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/11/world/new-ivory-coast-president-is-named-by-supreme-court.html |title=New Ivory Coast President Is Named by Supreme Court |journal=The New York Times |agency=[[The Associated Press]] |date=11 December 1993 |page=7 |access-date=16 October 2021 |archive-date=October 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211016073636/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/11/world/new-ivory-coast-president-is-named-by-supreme-court.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[December 8]] – U.S. President [[Bill Clinton]] signs into law the [[North American Free Trade Agreement]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Clinton Signs NAFTA -- December 8, 1993 |work=American President: An Online Reference Resource |url=http://millercenter.org/academic/americanpresident/events/12_08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101010231531/http://millercenter.org/academic/americanpresident/events/12_08 |archive-date=10 October 2010 |publisher=[[University of Virginia|Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia]] |access-date=15 October 2021}}</ref>
* [[December 10]] – [[id Software]] releases the first-person shooter game ''[[Doom (1993 video game)|Doom]]''.
* [[December 11]]
** One of the three blocks of the Highland Towers near [[Kuala Lumpur]], [[Malaysia]] [[Highland Towers collapse|collapses]], killing 48.<ref>{{cite web |title=History Asia - The Highland Towers Disaster |publisher=[[A&E Television Networks]] |year=2008 |url=http://www.historyasia.com/synopsis.aspx?libId=1401&sId=826&sTime=1320 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110711171851/http://www.historyasia.com/synopsis.aspx?libId=1401&sId=826&sTime=1320 |archive-date=11 July 2011 |access-date=15 October 2021}}</ref>
** [[1993 Chilean presidential election]]: [[Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle]] is elected with 58% of the vote.<ref>{{cite book |last1=United States Central Intelligence Agency |title=The 1997 CIA World Factbook |date=1 March 1999 |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1662 |access-date=19 September 2023 |language=English |author1-link=United States Central Intelligence Agency |archive-date=October 22, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231022001929/https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1662 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[December 13]]
** Former [[Prime Minister of Canada]] [[Kim Campbell]] resigns as leader of the [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative Party]] and is succeeded as leader by [[Jean Charest]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Farnsworth |first=Clyde H. |title=Campbell Resigns as Tory Leader in Canada |work=The New York Times |date=14 December 1993 |page=A9 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/14/world/campbell-resigns-as-tory-leader-in-canada.html |access-date=15 October 2021 |archive-date=October 29, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211029174949/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/14/world/campbell-resigns-as-tory-leader-in-canada.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/kim-campbell |last=Boyko |first=John |title=Kim Campbell |encyclopedia=[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]] |date=11 August 2011 |publisher=[[Historica Canada]] |access-date=15 October 2021 |archive-date=October 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211016131926/https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/kim-campbell |url-status=live }}</ref>
** The [[Majilis]] of [[Kazakhstan]] approves the nuclear [[Non-Proliferation Treaty]] and agrees to dismantle the more than 100 missiles left on its territory by the fall of the USSR.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.nonproliferation.org/wp-content/uploads/npr/laumul12.pdf |last=Laumulin |first=Murat |title=Viewpoint: Nuclear Politics and the Future Security of Kazakhstan |translator-last=Boyle |translator-first=Catherine |journal=[[The Nonproliferation Review]] |date=Winter 1994 |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=61–65 |doi=10.1080/10736709408436540 |access-date=16 October 2021 |archive-date=March 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220324031034/https://www.nonproliferation.org/wp-content/uploads/npr/laumul12.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[December 15]] – The [[Uruguay Round]] of [[General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade]] (GATT) talks reach a successful conclusion after seven years.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Uruguay Round |url=http://www.wto.org/trade_resources/history/wto/urug_round.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060822200650/http://www.wto.org/trade_resources/history/wto/urug_round.htm |publisher=[[World Trade Organization]] |department=Trade Resources |archive-date=22 August 2006 |access-date=15 October 2021}}</ref>
* [[December 17]] – [[Brazil]]'s [[Supreme Federal Court|Supreme Court]] rules that former President [[Fernando Collor de Mello]] may not hold elected office again until 2000 due to [[political corruption]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Brooke |first=James |author-link=James Brooke (journalist) |title=Brazilian Court Reaffirms Ban on the Ex-President |journal=The New York Times |date=17 December 1993 |page=A9 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/17/world/brazilian-court-reaffirms-ban-on-the-ex-president.html |access-date=16 October 2021 |archive-date=October 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211016134330/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/17/world/brazilian-court-reaffirms-ban-on-the-ex-president.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[December 20]]
** The [[United Nations General Assembly]] votes to appoint a [[U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Brief history |publisher=[[OHCHR]] |url=https://www.ohchr.org/EN/ABOUTUS/Pages/BriefHistory.aspx |access-date=15 October 2021 |archive-date=March 8, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220308025355/https://www.ohchr.org/EN/AboutUs/Pages/BriefHistory.aspx |url-status=live }}</ref> 
** The first corrected images from the [[Hubble Space Telescope]] are taken.    
* [[December 21]]
** The [[Hungarian Parliament]] elects [[Péter Boross]] [[Prime Minister of Hungary]] following the death of [[József Antall]] on December 12.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dr. Boross Péter |website=Magyar Demokrata Fórum 2006 |language=hu |url=http://part.mdf.hu/index.php?akt_menu=881&amn=ftag&ft=boross&PHPSESSID=3bfd40ca307dbaa414ea0c442e58de0f |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060603172445/http://part.mdf.hu/index.php?akt_menu=881&amn=ftag&ft=boross&PHPSESSID=3bfd40ca307dbaa414ea0c442e58de0f |archive-date=3 June 2006 |access-date=15 October 2021}}</ref>
** Phil Vischer and Mike Nawrocki's [[VeggieTales]] is first released.                 
* [[December 30]]
** The [[Indian National Congress|Congress Party]] gains a parliamentary majority in India after the defection of 10 [[Janata Dal]] party lawmakers.
** Representatives of [[Israel]] and the [[Holy See]] sign the [[Fundamental Agreement Between the Holy See and the State of Israel]], preparing for the establishment of [[Holy See–Israel relations|diplomatic relations]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/secretariat_state/archivio/documents/rc_seg-st_19931230_santa-sede-israele_en.html |title=Fundamental Agreement between the Holy See and the State of Israel |date=30 December 1993 |website=[[vatican.va]] |access-date=16 October 2021 |archive-date=November 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211125171740/https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/secretariat_state/archivio/documents/rc_seg-st_19931230_santa-sede-israele_en.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
** [[Argentina]] passes a measure allowing President [[Carlos Menem]] and all future presidents to run for a second consecutive term. It also shortens presidential terms to four years and removes the requirement for the president to be [[Roman Catholic]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/30/world/argentine-senate-backs-menem-on-second-term.html |last=Nash |first=Nathaniel C. |author-link=Nathaniel C. Nash |title=Argentine Senate Backs Menem on Second Term |journal=The New York Times |date=30 December 1993 |page=A5 |access-date=16 October 2021 |archive-date=October 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211016141330/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/30/world/argentine-senate-backs-menem-on-second-term.html |url-status=live }}</ref>