Timeline August 1993

Events in August 1993 7

• 1913 – 1993 Stewart Granger (1913-1993) English actor, a swashbuckling star of MGM adventure films in the 1950s.
• 1993 Billy Joel releases River of Dreams Last pop album His last album of new pop songs.
• 1993 Fourth World Championship gold -- Stuttgart 1993 Bubka wins his fourth consecutive world title at the 1993 IAAF World Championships in Stuttgart, now competing for independent Ukraine. Four consecutive world titles in the same event is a record in itself; he has two more to come. The Stuttgart performance consolidates his position as the most dominant individual athlete in the history of track and field -- no other competitor in any event has won four straight World Championships titles. He is 29.
• 1993 US Open 1993 Men: Pete Sampras · Women: Steffi Graf
• 1993 "The Fugitive" released in theaters Harrison Ford thriller becomes one of the year's biggest hits "The Fugitive," starring Harrison Ford as a doctor wrongly convicted of murdering his wife, opened in US theaters and became one of 1993's highest-grossing films. Tommy Lee Jones won an Academy Award for his role as the US Marshal pursuing him. The film was based on the 1960s television series of the same name.
• 1993 – 2013 Albert II King of Belgium Albert II presided over Belgium during periods of political instability and constitutional reform.
• 1993 Stewart Granger dies in Santa Monica Stewart Granger dies aged 80.