Timeline December 1993

Events in December 1993 15

• 1905 – 1993 Myrna Loy (1905-1993) Died 14 December 1993, aged 88 Myrna Loy was an American actress best remembered for playing Nora Charles opposite William Powell in the "Thin Man" film series. She was one of the most popular stars of Hollywood's golden age, though she never received a competitive Academy Award. She died in New York City.
• 1908 – 1993 Don Ameche (1908-1993) Died 6 December 1993, aged 85 Don Ameche was an American actor whose career spanned six decades, from 1930s radio and film through a career resurgence with "Trading Places" and an Oscar-winning role in "Cocoon." He was famously, if inaccurately, credited by the public with inventing the telephone due to his role in a 1939 biopic of Alexander Graham Bell. He died of prostate cancer in Scottsdale, Arizona.
• 1940 – 1993 Frank Zappa (1940-1993) Died 4 December 1993, aged 52 Frank Zappa was an American musician and composer known for his prolific and genre-defying output across rock, jazz, and orchestral music. He was also an outspoken advocate for free speech, testifying before Congress against the labeling of music with explicit content warnings. He died of prostate cancer at his home in Los Angeles.
• 1989 – 1993 Chip 'n Dale and KARR Voiced Monterey Jack in Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (1989-1990) and the villainous KARR in Knight Rider, adding to his roster of beloved animated characters.
• 1989 – 1993 International Revival A 1989 retrospective at the Center for International Contemporary Arts in New York, organised by Alexandra Munroe, sparked a revival of international interest in her work. In 1993, she represented Japan at the Venice Biennale with a dazzling mirrored room filled with pumpkin sculptures, re-establishing her on the world stage.
• 1991 – 1993 Vice Premier Appointed Vice Premier by Deng Xiaoping. Emerged as China's leading economic reformer in 1993 when he personally took charge of the People's Bank of China and created a programme that reduced the country's crippling inflation from over 20% to under 5%.
• 1992 – 1993 Home Alone 2 and The Three Musketeers Played the suspicious hotel concierge in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) and Cardinal Richelieu in The Three Musketeers (1993). Also received his second Tony Award nomination for playing troubled movie star Alan Swann in My Favorite Year on Broadway.
• 1993 1993: Alain Prost Williams Prost won his fourth and final title with Williams before retiring at the end of the season, having been the sport's most successful driver in terms of race wins at that time.
• 1993 What's Love Got to Do with It (Film) Angela Bassett portrayed Turner in the biographical film What's Love Got to Do with It, earning an Oscar nomination. The film brought Turner's story of survival to a global audience.
• 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, shared with Richard J. Roberts, for their independent discoveries of split genes. The Nobel committee cited the discovery as having been of fundamental importance for basic research in biology and for medical research on cancer and other diseases.
• 1993 Marries Barbara Feltus Becker marries Barbara Feltus in a ceremony that draws enormous media attention in Germany. The couple pose nude for the magazine Stern — generating both controversy and headlines across Europe.
• 1993 Patrick Bruel at the Hotel Amigo Eight accomplices, all dressed as Georges le Gloupier They got past security while Bruel was signing autographs. The slogan that day was about an awful singing louse.
• 1993 Hubble Space Telescope's first servicing mission Shuttle astronauts correct the telescope's flawed mirror Astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour conducted a series of spacewalks to install corrective optics on the Hubble Space Telescope, fixing the spherical aberration in its main mirror that had blurred images since 1990. The mission restored Hubble to its intended sharpness and enabled decades of subsequent astronomical discoveries. It was widely regarded as a make-or-break test of NASA's space shuttle and space station programs.
• 1993 Mandela and de Klerk awarded Nobel Peace Prize Joint honor for negotiating South Africa's transition from apartheid Nelson Mandela and South African President F.W. de Klerk jointly received the Nobel Peace Prize for their work ending apartheid and negotiating a peaceful transition to multiracial democracy. The award came months before South Africa's first democratic elections in April 1994. Both men had led rival sides through years of negotiation despite ongoing political violence.
• 1993 Schindler's List Oscar Best Picture 1993 Directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Liam Neeson. The true story of Oskar Schindler, who saved over a thousand Jewish refugees during the Holocaust. Won 7 Academy Awards.