Editing 1993 (section)

===January===
* [[January 1]]
** [[Czechoslovakia]] ceases to exist, as the [[Czech Republic]] and [[Slovakia]] separate in the [[Dissolution of Czechoslovakia]].
** The [[European Economic Community]] eliminates trade barriers and creates a European [[single market]].
** [[International Radio and Television Organization]] ceases.
* [[January 3]] – In Moscow, Presidents [[George H. W. Bush]] (United States) and [[Boris Yeltsin]] (Russia) sign the [[START II|second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty]].
* [[January 5]]
** US$7.4&nbsp;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 [[Liberia]]n-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]]–[[January 20|20]] – The [[Bombay riots]] take place in [[Mumbai]].
* [[January 7]] – The [[Fourth Republic of Ghana]] is inaugurated, with [[Jerry Rawlings]] as president.
* [[January 8]]–[[January 17|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.
** [[Iraq disarmament crisis]]: [[January 1993 airstrikes on Iraq|US, British and French aircraft attack Iraqi Surface to Air Missile sites in Southern Iraq]].
* [[January 14]] – The Polish ferry {{MS|Jan Heweliusz}} [[Sinking of the MS Jan Heweliusz|sinks]] off the coast of [[Rügen]] in the [[Baltic Sea]], killing 54 people.<ref>{{Cite news |last= |date=1993-01-15 |title=54 Die as Polish Ferry Capsizes in Baltic Sea |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/15/world/54-die-as-polish-ferry-capsizes-in-baltic-sea.html |access-date=2025-02-20 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
* [[January 19]] – 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 (→ [[January 1993 airstrikes on Iraq]]). Iraq then informs UNSCOM that it will be able to resume its flights.
* [[January 24]] – In [[Turkey]], thousands protest against the murder of journalist [[Uğur Mumcu]].
* [[January 25]] – [[Social Democrats (Denmark)|Social Democrat]] [[Poul Nyrup Rasmussen]] succeeds [[Conservative People's Party (Denmark)|Conservative]] [[Poul Schlüter]] as [[Prime Minister of Denmark]].
* [[January 26]] – [[Václav Havel]] is elected President of the Czech Republic.
* [[January 30]] – The [[B Line (Los Angeles Metro)|Red Line]] (later known as the B Line) officially begins service in [[Los Angeles]], becoming the first underground [[rapid transit]] line to open in almost 70 years.