Discovery of Shoemaker-Levy 9
With Carolyn and Eugene Shoemaker, discovers the fragmented comet later destined to strike Jupiter.
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1993 in Canada
Explore 15 historical events and records for Canada in 1993.
Historical records for Canada in 1993
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7Named people on this page
4Places on this page
March
June
Prime Minister of Canada
Becomes Canada first woman prime minister.
1st Female Prime Minister
Appointed Prime Minister of Canada, Canada's 1st woman Prime Minister
Group of Seven
2nd woman in history to sit at the table of the Group of Seven leaders, after British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
Prime Minister of Canada
Appointed Prime Minister of Canada, Canada's 1st woman Prime Minister
October
Peacekeeping Mission Leadership
Begins supervising implementation of the Arusha peace agreement.
UNAMIR Command
Takes command of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda.
November
Inauguration
Sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada
Prime Minister of Canada
Forms a Liberal majority government.
Other events (month unknown)
Election
Campbell & all but two of her party's candidates lose their seats in the national elections
Low Density Lambda Cosmology
Peebles develops observational arguments for a low-matter universe containing a cosmological constant, helping establish Lambda cosmology before the supernova discovery of acceleration.
Minister of National Defence
Appointed Minister of Defence
Page Curve
Derives the characteristic entropy evolution now called the Page curve for radiation from an evaporating black hole under unitary evolution.
Party Leader
Appointed Party Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party
Prime Minister of Canada
Appointed Prime Minister of Canada
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