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19931993 TV Timeline Guide AJANU RY 06 Created in conjunction with World Affairs Jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie dies of cancer at United States Affairs seventy-five. Pop Culture & Ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev dies at fifty-four, though Entertainment the true cause of his death—complications from an AIDS-related illness—is not reported for another Arts & Sciences ten days. This publication has been published on the occasion AJANU RY 07 of the New Museum exhibition“NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star,” curated by AJANU RY 01 The US Environmental Protection Agency classifies Massimiliano Gioni, Associate Director and Director of secondhand tobacco smoke as a “known human Exhibitions, Gary Carrion-Murayari, Curator, Czechoslovakia is officially divided into two nations, carcinogen” responsible for three thousand Jenny Moore, Associate Curator, and Margot Norton, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, at the stroke of the nonsmoker deaths annually. Assistant Curator. New Year. New York City Mayor David Dinkins expands the New Museum exhibition dates: A group show at Paula Cooper Gallery featuring rights of unmarried and homosexual New Yorkers, February 13–May 26, 2013 Robert Gober, Donald Judd, Cady Noland, and Rudolf announcing a city registry for domestic partners. Stingel closes. His executive order grants hospital visitation rights “NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star” and other legal benefits for registered couples. is made possible through the support of the On Kawara’s show “One Thousand Days One Million AJANU RY 08 Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation. Additional funding Years” opens at Dia Art Foundation in Chelsea, is provided by Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, New York. Chicago Bull Michael Jordan scores his twenty- the Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso AJANU RY 02 thousandth career point in a game against the para el Arte, and the Robert Mapplethorpe Milwaukee Bucks. Photography Fund. In Geneva, leaders from war-torn Bosnia and AJANU RY 09 Herzegovina propose creating ten new provinces in Copyright © New Museum, New York the Balkans, intended to mediate between the various American forces in Somalia begin an offensive to All rights reserved. No part of this publication may territorial claims by Serbs, Croats, and Bosnian wrest greater control over Mogadishu in a bid to be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, Muslims. improve security conditions for United Nations or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, peacekeeping forces. mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, Wired magazine launches at the Macworld without consent of the publisher. conference in San Francisco. In Angola, the fifty-five-day-long battle for Huambo between UNITA rebels and the ruling government Timeline: Claire Lehmann AJANU RY 03 begins, ultimately causing the death of an estimated Editor and Publications Coordinator: Sarah Stephenson US President George Bush and Russian President ten thousand people. Graphic Design: This is our work Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Printed in the USA Reduction Treaty, agreeing to a two-thirds reduction in 01/01 01/06 their respective nuclear arsenals by the year 2003. Special thanks to Guilherme Campello AJANU RY 04 The US Commerce Department releases a report finding that health care costs accounted for more than 14 percent of the nation’s total economic output AJANU RY 10 in the previous year, posing a “threat to the country’s economic health.” The University of Pittsburgh surgically transplants a baboon liver into a patient dying of hepatitis, the AJANU RY 05 second baboon-liver xenotransplant in history. The President Bush, in a final address at West Point, patient dies of an infection twenty-six days later. cautions the US against becoming “the world’s AJANU RY 11 policeman,” despite the far-reaching international military engagements of his own presidency. Defeated Independent presidential candidate Ross Perot reappears in the public view to announce the Serial killer Westley Allan Dodd is executed in aims of his campaign-organization-turned-nonprofit, Washington State by hanging, at his own request— “United We Stand, America,” including “electronic the first execution by hanging in the US since 1965. town meetings” to broadcast citizens’ views. 01/20 AJANU RY 16 AJANU RY 24 AFEBRU RY 01 Zoë Baird, President-elect Clinton’s nominee for Thurgood Marshall, the first black Supreme Court Hillary Clinton announces a complete ban on smoking attorney general, pays $2,900 in fines for employing Justice, dies of heart failure at the age of eighty-four. in the White House, citing her focus on health. undocumented workers as a nanny and a chauffeur. A JANU RY 25 The scandal, known as “Nannygate,” ultimately results Wayne Koestenbaum’s nonfiction book on opera and in the withdrawal of her nomination. Sears, Roebuck and Company announces that queer culture, The Queen’s Throat, is released. they will no longer produce their annual “Big Book” AFEBRU RY 02 Paul McCarthy’s solo show opens at catalogue, their revolutionary mail-order initiative that Luhring Augustine Gallery. began in 1896. President Clinton meets with governors and members AJANU RY 17 of Congress, announcing that he will seek $31 billion Aimal Qazi, a Pakistani immigrant armed with an AK- in stimulus spending to revive the economy. The US Navy launches forty cruise missiles targeting 47, fires at CIA employees in Langley, Virginia, killing AFEBRU RY 03 a military installation on the outskirts of Baghdad in two; he later states that he was motivated by anger AJANU RY 12 retaliation for Iraq’s noncompliance with UN weapons with US policy in the Middle East. Jury selection begins in the federal civil rights trial of inspectors. Cream reunites for a performance at their Rock and AJANU RY 26 four of the police officers charged in the beating of Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Los Angeles. AJANU RY 18 Rodney King. Václav Havel, formerly the president of Other inductees include Creedence Clearwater AFEBRU RY 04 Revival, The Doors, Van Morrison, and Sly and the The states of Arizona and New Hampshire observe Czechoslovakia, is elected the first president of the Family Stone. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, making 1993 the first year newly formed Czech Republic. The Dow Jones industrial average closes at a record of full participation by all fifty states. high of 3,416.74, thanks to falling interest rates and AJANU RY 13 AJANU RY 27 AJANU RY 19 positive corporate earning reports. Wrestler and actor André Roussimoff, better known as The United States, Britain, and France destroy missile AFEBRU RY 05 sites in southern Iraq after Saddam Hussein ordered Iraq agrees to stop its attacks on US aircraft in a “sign André the Giant, dies in his sleep of congestive heart forays into Kuwait in violation of UN resolutions. of good will” toward President-elect Clinton. failure at forty-nine. President Clinton signs his first piece of legislation AJANU RY 28 into law: the Family and Medical Leave Act, which US Air Force Major Susan Helms becomes the first Israel’s parliament votes to annul a 1986 law that provides twelve weeks of unpaid leave for workers to US military woman in space as a mission specialist on deemed it illegal for Israeli citizens to meet with Artist Hannah Wilke dies from lymphoma at fifty- care for a child or sick family member. the shuttle Endeavour. members of the Palestine Liberation Organization, three; her illness is the subject of her posthumously buoying hopes for future peace talks. AFEBRU RY 06 AJANU RY 14 published last work, Intra-Venus. AJANU RY 20 Arthur Ashe, the only black man to win Wimbledon, The Federal Communications Commission assigns Lothar Baumgarten’s solo exhibition “American the US Open, and the Australian Open, dies from an a new block of radio frequencies for a new satellite- William Jefferson Clinton is inaugurated as the forty- Invention” opens at the Guggenheim Museum AIDS-related illness at the age of forty-nine. based GPS paging device, allowing 100-character second president of the United States. in New York. 02/01 02/05 text messages to be sent and received around the AJANU RY 29 world. Actor Audrey Hepburn dies of cancer at sixty-three. AJANU RY 21 President Clinton announces a temporary suspension Six scientists and three tourists are killed inside the in military discharges of homosexuals after a furor Galeras volcano in Colombia during an eruption; The White House announces that Hillary Rodham over his plan to lift the ban on gay service members they entered the crater despite pre-eruption “tornillo” Clinton will have her own office in the West Wing, in the military outright; he also announces that new earthquakes occurring in the previous where she will work on a number of domestic policy military recruits would not be asked about their sexual AFEBRU RY 07 weeks. issues; Hillary and Bill arrive at the Oval Office orientation, the compromise that would come to be together on his first full day as president. known as “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” A proposed Bosnian peace plan fails on the eve of a A US federal judge forbids the National Security AJANU RY 22 United Nations Security Council session. Council from erasing emails and other digital files AJANU RY 30 AFEBRU RY 08 that may contain information on the Iran-contra affair President Clinton overturns restrictions on abortion The Metro Red Line, a 4.4-mile-long subway before President Bush leaves office. on the twentieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, lifting route, opens in Los Angeles after seven years of The Clinton Administration announces that, in the AJANU RY 15 bans on abortion counseling at federal clinics and construction. wake of the “Nannygate” scandal, candidates for on financial aid to international family-planning AJANU RY 31 government jobs subject to Senate confirmation will The US Coast Guard, with the support of President- programs.