Year in a Minute: 1993

Meeting for Vaclav Havel In Wenceslas Square 1993

MEETING FOR VACLAV HAVEL IN WENCESLAS SQUARE (Photo by David Brauchli/Sygma via Getty Images) Credit: David Brauchli/Sygma via Getty Images

SBS celebrating 50 Years. This is a Year in a Minute 1993.


Czechoslovakia splits and the earth shakes,

Islamic extremists detonate truck bombs in the World Trade Centre basement, killing six.

Hundreds die when an Indian crime boss sets off 13 bombs across Mumbai.

The battle of Mogadishu – one thousand Somalis and 18 Americans dead.

83 die when US agents storm David Koresh’s cult compound at Waco, Texas.

And hope as Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shake hands, signing the first Oslo peace accord.

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