1993 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1993 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

*Monarch - HM Queen Elizabeth II
*Prime Minister - John Major, Conservative

Events

* 5 January - The MV "Braer" runs aground on the Shetland Islands, spilling 84,700 tonnes of crude oil into the sea. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/5/newsid_2506000/2506223.stm|title="Oil tanker runs aground off Shetland", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-02-13]
* 8 January - Ford unveils its new Mondeo, a range of large hatchbacks, saloons and estates which will reach showrooms on 22 March as replacement for the long-running Sierra.
* 11 January - British Airways admits liability and apologises "unreservedly" for an alleged "dirty tricks" campaign against Virgin Atlantic. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/11/newsid_2520000/2520189.stm|title="BA dirty tricks against Virgin cost £3m", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-02-13]
* 12 February - Merseyside toddler James Bulger is reporting missing after he disappeared from the Strand Shopping Centre in Bootle.cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/14/newsid_2541000/2541171.stm|title="Missing two-year-old found dead", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-02-13]
* 14 February - Police on Merseyside confirm that they have found the body of James Bulger, who went missing two days previously. James's body was found on a railway line in Walton, approximately two miles from where he was last seen.
* 20 February - Two 10-year-old boys are arrested in connection with the death of James Bulger.cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/20/newsid_2552000/2552185.stm|title="Two boys charged with toddler's murder", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-02-13]
* 22 February - The two boys arrested in connection with James Bulger's death are charged with murder.
* 3 March - Tony Bland, who was given the right to die by the High Court due to injuries suffered into the Hillsborough disaster, dies after being in a coma for nearly four years. This brings the Hillsborough death toll to 96.
* 20 March - Warrington bomb attacks: An IRA bomb on Warrington, Cheshire, claims the life of three-year-old Jonathan Ball and injures more than 50 other people.cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/20/newsid_2544000/2544121.stm|title="Child killed in Warrington bomb attack", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-02-13]
* 25 March - The IRA attack on Warrington claims its second victim when 12-year-old Timothy Parry dies in hospital from his injuries.
* April - Rover Group enters the compact executive market with its 600 Series, which is based on the Honda Accord and built at the Cowley plant in Oxford.
* 2 April - Vauxhall launches its all-new Corsa supermini, which replaces the decade-old Nova.
* 3 April - A false start forces the Grand National to be cancelled. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/3/newsid_4216000/4216143.stm|title="Grand National ends in 'shambles'", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-02-13]
* 22 April - Black student Stephen Lawrence, 18, is stabbed to death in Eltham, London. Police suspect that the murder was racially motivated.
* 24 April - Bishopsgate bombing. A massive bomb explodes at Bishopsgate in the City of London. The blast destroys the medieval St Ethelburga's church, and badly damages the NatWest Tower and Liverpool Street tube station. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/24/newsid_2523000/2523345.stm|title="IRA bomb devastates City of London", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-02-13]
* 26 April - The British government declares the official end of the recession after revealing that the economy grew by 0.2% in the first three months of this year.
* 29 April - The Queen announces that Buckingham Palace will open to the public for the first time. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/29/newsid_4297000/4297161.stm|title="Queen to open Palace doors", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-02-13]
* 23 May - Former nurse Beverley Allitt, 25, is sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty of killing four children and harming nine others at a Lincolnshire hospital.
* 21 June - Andrew Wiles announces a proof to Fermat's Last Theorem at the Isaac Newton Institute. The proof was slightly flawed, but Wiles announced a revised proof the following year.
* 24 June - Northern Ireland Minister Michael Mates resigns over links with fugitive tycoon Asil Nadir. [ cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/24/newsid_2519000/2519201.stm|title="Minister resigns over business links", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-02-13]
* 22 July - government almost defeated by "Maastricht Rebels".
* 29 July - Conservative Party loses the Christchurch by-election.
* 29 July - Two Lewisham teenagers, both aged under 18, are acquitted of murdering Stephen Lawrence, who was fatally stabbed in London three months ago. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/29/newsid_2493000/2493451.stm|title="Lawrence murder suspects freed", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-02-13]
* 17 September - The British National Party wins its first council seat on Tower Hamlets. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/17/newsid_2520000/2520085.stm|title="Shock as racist wins council seat", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-02-13]
* 8 October - John Major launches his Back to Basics campaign. [cite news|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,,801924,00.html|title="Major goes back to the old values", The Guardian|accessdate=2007-09-26]
* 23 October - Shankill Road bombing in Northern Ireland kills ten people including the bomber.
* 30 October - Greysteel massacre in Northern Ireland in retaliation for the Shankill Road bombing kills another eight.
* 9 November - Princess Diana sues the "Daily Mirror" over photographs that were taken of her at a gym.
* 17 November - A teacher and ten children, all from Hagley RC High School near Birmingham, are killed in a minibus crash on the M40 in Warwickshire.
* 24 November - Two 11-year-old boys are convicted at Preston Crown Court of murdering James Bulger. The trial judge sentences them to detention at Her Majesty's pleasure, with a recommendation that they should be imprisoned for "very, very many years to come" before being considered for release. The judge removes an identity restriction on the two killers, naming them as Robert Thompson and Jon Venables.
* 25 November - TV entertainer Roy Castle, 61, announces that he is suffering from a recurrence of the lung cancer which he was believed to have overcome one year ago.
* 29 November - The Conservative government comes under a vitriolic attack in the House of Commons over allegations that it has secret contacts with the Provisional Irish Republican Army.
* 3 December - Diana, Princess of Wales, announces her withdrawal from public life.cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]
* 10 December - Richard J. Roberts wins the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with Phillip Allen Sharp "for their discoveries of split genes". [cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1993/|title=The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1993|accessdate=2008-02-13]
* 15 December - The Downing Street Declaration signed between the UK and Irish governments on the future of Northern Ireland. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/15/newsid_4032000/4032141.stm|title="Anglo-Irish pact paves way for peace", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-02-13]

Publications

* Iain M. Banks' novel "Against a Dark Background".
* Iain Banks' novel "Complicity".
* Pat Barker's novel "The Eye in the Door".
* Louis de Bernières' novel "Captain Corelli's Mandolin".
* Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel "Men at Arms" and his Johnny Maxwell novel "Johnny and the Dead".
* Irvine Welsh's novel "Trainspotting".

Births

* June 25 - Barney Clark, actor

Deaths

* 17 January - Albert Hourani, historian (born 1915)
* 18 February - Jacqueline Hill, actress (born 1929)
* 24 February - Bobby Moore, footballer (born 1941)
* 9 March - C. Northcote Parkinson, historian (born 1909)
* 17 March - Charlotte Hughes, longest-lived person ever documented in the United Kingdom (born 1877)
* 15 April - Robert Westall, author (born 1929)
* 30 April - Tommy Caton, footballer (born 1962)
* 10 June - Les Dawson, comedian (born 1931)
* 19 June - William Golding, writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911)
* 5 October - Jim Holton, footballer (born 1951)
* 22 November - Anthony Burgess, author (born 1917)

References

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