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December 2, 1993

On December 2, 1993, colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is shot and killed by police in Medellín. The year's #1 song was "I Will Always Love You" by Whitney Houston. Florin Andone, Robin Anderson, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins would arrive in the same year.

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Around 1993

The year in brief

1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1993rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 993rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 93rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1990s decade.

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What happened

On December 2, 1993

  1. 1993 Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is shot and killed by police in Medellín.

    Country in South America

    Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country located in South America, with insular regions in North America. Colombia's mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuela to the east, Brazil to the southeast, Peru and Ecuador to the south and southwest, the Pacific Ocean to the west, and Panama to the northwest. Colombia is divided into 32 departments.

  2. 1993 Space Shuttle program: STS-61: NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.

    1972–2011 United States human spaceflight program

    S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished routine transportation for Earth-to-orbit crew and cargo from 1981 to 2011. Its official program name was carried over from the 1969 plan for the Space Transportation System (STS) of reusable spacecraft.

Arrivals

Born on December 2, 1993

Haruka Ishida 1993– Japanese actress, voice actress (born 1993)
Kostas Stafylidis 1993– Greek footballer

Farewells

Died on December 2, 1993

Pablo Escobar Colombian drug lord (1949–1993)

Elsewhere that year

Other moments from 1993

The class of 1993

Others born in 1993

Florin Andone 1993– Romanian footballer
Robin Anderson 1993– American tennis player
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins 1993– Canadian ice hockey player
Melvin Gordon 1993– American football player
Darrun Hilliard 1993– American basketball player
Felipe Anderson 1993– Brazilian footballer

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