Timeline March 1993

Events in March 1993 11

• 1900 – 1993 Helen Hayes (1900-1993) American actress known as the First Lady of the American Theatre, one of few performers to win an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony.
• 1906 – 1993 Albert Sabin (1906-1993) Died 3 March 1993, aged 86 Albert Sabin developed the oral polio vaccine, which used a weakened live virus and could be administered on a sugar cube, making mass immunization far easier than with the earlier injected vaccine. His vaccine became the primary tool in the global campaign to eradicate polio. He died in Washington, D.C.
• 1993 Iditarod 1993 Winner: Jeff King — 10 days 15h Jeff King of Denali Park won his first Iditarod title in 1993. He would go on to win four championships.
• 1993 Pentium — Intel renames its processors Intel introduces the Pentium processor in March 1993 — the successor to the 486, with 3.1 million transistors running at 60–233MHz. Intel names it 'Pentium' rather than '586' because AMD's legal victories establish that numbers cannot be trademarked. The Pentium brand becomes one of the most recognised in consumer technology. The Pentium contains a superscalar architecture — two parallel execution pipelines — that nearly doubles performance over the 486. It powers the PC multimedia revolution of the mid-1990s.
• 1993 – present Anthony Davis AD Elite two-way big man and 2020 NBA champion.
• 1993 1993 Bombay bombings Coordinated bomb blasts kill over 250 people across the city A series of 12 coordinated bomb explosions struck targets across Bombay (Mumbai), including the Bombay Stock Exchange, killing over 250 people and injuring more than 700. Indian authorities attributed the attacks to organized crime figures acting in retaliation for earlier communal riots. It remains one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in India's history.
• 1993 Helen Hayes dies in Nyack Helen Hayes dies aged 92.
• 1993 Warrington bombing IRA bomb attack kills two children in an English town centre The Provisional IRA detonated two bombs in litter bins in the English town of Warrington, killing three-year-old Jonathan Ball and twelve-year-old Tim Parry and injuring dozens of shoppers. The attack on a civilian target provoked widespread public revulsion in both Britain and Ireland. It became a catalyst for cross-community peace initiatives during the Northern Ireland peace process.
• 1993 Intel launches the Pentium processor New microprocessor line succeeds the 486 and dominates 1990s PCs Intel released the first Pentium processor, marking a major leap in consumer computing performance over its 486 predecessor. The Pentium name, rather than a numbered successor, was chosen partly so the brand could be trademarked. It became the dominant processor family in personal computers throughout the 1990s.
• 1993 Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 discovered Astronomers spot a comet already broken apart by Jupiter's gravity Carolyn and Eugene Shoemaker and David Levy discovered a comet that had been torn into a chain of fragments by Jupiter's tidal forces during a previous close approach. The comet's unusual fragmented appearance made it immediately notable to astronomers. It later became famous when its fragments collided with Jupiter in July 1994, the first observed impact between two solar system bodies.
• 1993 Brandon Lee dies Shot on set of The Crow, age 28 Brandon Lee, son of Bruce Lee, was accidentally shot and killed on March 31, 1993, during the filming of The Crow in Wilmington, North Carolina, when a bullet became lodged in a prop gun. He was 28 years old.