Hubble Damaged Solar Array Released
Thornton releases a damaged original Hubble solar array that cannot be safely returned inside Endeavour.
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Explore 102 historical events and records for United States of America in 1993.
Historical records for United States of America in 1993
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Hubble Solar Array Replacement
Thornton helps replace Hubble's original solar arrays with improved arrays designed to better tolerate orbital temperature changes.
WFPC2 Installed on Hubble
Hoffman helps replace Hubble's original planetary camera with WFPC2, whose corrective optics compensate for the primary mirror flaw.
COSTAR Installed on Hubble
Akers helps install COSTAR, providing corrective optics for three Hubble science instruments affected by spherical aberration.
Hubble Orbit Boost
Bowersox pilots orbital maneuvers that raise Endeavour and Hubble into a higher orbit, extending the telescope's orbital lifetime.
Hubble Solar Array Electronics Repair
Musgrave helps replace solar-array drive electronics and complete magnetometer and electrical work during the mission's final spacewalk.
North American Free Trade Agreement
Clinton signs legislation implementing free trade with Canada and Mexico.
Hubble Servicing Mission 1 Completed
Covey commands Endeavour's return to Earth after the successful first Hubble servicing mission.
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A Perfect World
Directs A Perfect World, a crime drama starring Kevin Costner.
Academy Award
Winner of the Oscar for Best Actor
Age of Innocence
Directs, The Age of Innocence
Ahead of Their Time
Releases Ahead of Their Time, documenting a 1968 Mothers of Invention performance at London's Royal Festival Hall.
Al-Qaeda
Convicted in connection to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and for the murder of Rabbi Meir Kahane on November 5, 1990
Autopsy
Claims to have found, in the x-rays of Kennedys skull, evidence of 2 bullet hits to Kennedys head
BAFTA
Wins best screenplay for " Husbands and Wives"
Baltimore Waltz Obie Recognition
Paula Vogel received an Obie Award for The Baltimore Waltz, a darkly comic play about illness, imagination and grief.
Bombing of World Trade Center
Convicted in connection to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and for the murder of Rabbi Meir Kahane on November 5, 1990
Carlitos Way
Appears in Carlitos Way
Chicago Law School
Joins Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, a twelve-attorney law firm specializing in civil rights litigation and neighborhood economic development, where he was an associate for three years from 1993 to 1996
Civil Rights
Joins Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, a twelve-attorney law firm specializing in civil rights litigation and neighborhood economic development, where he was an associate for three years from 1993 to 1996
Clinton Health Care Plan
The recommendations of the task force become the Clinton Health Care Plan, a comprehensive proposal that would require employers to provide health coverage to their employees through individual health maintenance organisations. Plays a role in advocating the establishment of the State Childrens Health Insurance Program, the Adoption and Safe Families Act, and the Foster Care Independence Act
Contends that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in
Contends that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the assassination of John F. Kennedy and Oswalds assailant, Jack Ruby, acted independently as well. An investigative journalist and author of several books, including Case Closed (1993) which explores the John F. Kennedy assassination
Deep Politics and the Death of JFK
Scott published Deep Politics and the Death of JFK, questioning the lone-assassin account and linking the assassination controversy to intelligence, law-enforcement and political networks.
Discovery of 1993 FW
Luu and Jewitt identify another trans-Neptunian object, helping establish that 1992 QB1 was not an isolated discovery.
Economy of USA
Supports the North American Free Trade Agreement for ratification by the US Senate. Raises taxes on the wealthiest 1.2% , while cutting taxes on 15 million low-earners
Election
Wins the Presidential election (43.0% of the vote) against Republican George H. W. Bush (37.4% of the vote) & billionaire populist H. Ross Perot, who runs as an independent (18.9% of the vote)
Emmy Award Picket Fences Actor
Tom Skerritt received the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for playing Sheriff Jimmy Brock in Picket Fences.
Forward the Foundation Published
Forward the Foundation appeared posthumously, extending the fictional biography of mathematician Hari Seldon.
Grumpy Old Men
Stars in, "Grumpy Old Men"
Guns
Signs the Brady Bill, imposes 5 day waiting period on handgun purchases so that background checks can be done
Health Reform
The effort to create a national healthcare system ultimately dies under heavy public pressure, the first major legislative defeat of Clintons administration. Sets up a task force, headed by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, to come up with a comprehensive plan to provide universal health care for all Americans, cornerstone of the administration
In Pieces
Releases Album, "In Pieces"
In the Line of Fire
Stars as a Secret Service agent in the political thriller In the Line of Fire.
Jurassic Park
Writes & directs, "Jurassic Park"
Kuiper Belt Population Established
Additional discoveries following 1992 QB1 demonstrate that a substantial population of small worlds occupies the region beyond Neptune.
Legislation
William Jefferson Bill Clinton raises taxes on the wealthiest 1.2%, while cutting taxes on 15 million low-earners.
Legislation
William Jefferson Bill Clinton signs the Brady Bill, imposes 5 day waiting period on handgun purchases so that background checks can be done.
Legislation
William Jefferson Bill Clinton signs the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, which requires large employers to allow their employees to take unpaid leave because of pregnancy or serious medical condition.
Legislation
William Jefferson Bill Clinton signs the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act which passes Congress without a single Republican vote.
Magellan Aerobraking
Magellan uses controlled passes through Venus's upper atmosphere to circularize its orbit in the first major planetary aerobraking experiment.
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