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| | | Czechoslovakia divides peacefully into the Czech and Slovak Republics | |
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| 1993 |
| | | Steven Spielberg directs Jurassic Park, in which dinosaurs are cloned (and animated) to terrifying effect | |
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| 1993 |
| | | Pablo Escobar, leader of the Medellin drugs cartel in Colombia, is cornered and shot | |
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| 1993 |
| | | Apartheid ends in South Africa, after two thirds of white voters vote for its abolition in a referendum | |
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| 1993 |
| | | English novelist Sebastian Faulks publishes Birdsong, set partly in the trenches of World War I | |
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| 1993 |
| | | The Branch Dravidians, members of a religious cult, burn to death in their Waco headquarters under siege by the FBI | |
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| 1993 |
| | | Guinea's first democratic election is won by the incumbent president, Lansana Conté | |
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| 1993 |
| | | US author A.R. Ammons publishes a book-length poem, Garbage, typed on narrow strips of adding-machine paper | |
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| 1993 |
| | | The UN imposes sanctions because of Libya's refusal to cooperate in the Lockerbie air disaster enquiry | |
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| 1993 |
| | | US author Annie Proulx wins major awards with her second novel, The Shipping News | |
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