1993

• 4 Non Blondes – “What’s Up”
• Ace of Base – “All That She Wants”
• Billy Joel – “The River of Dreams”
• Duran Duran – “Ordinary World”
• Haddaway – “What Is Love?”
• Janet Jackson – “That’s the Way Love Goes”
• Mariah Carey – “Dreamlover”
• Mariah Carey – “Hero”
• Meat Loaf – “I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That)”
• Mr Big - "Wild World"
• Peaobo Bryson & Regina Belle – “A Whole New World (Aladdin’s Theme)”
• Salt-n-Pepa – “Shoop”
• Snow – “Informer”
• Soul Asylum – “Runaway Train”
• Tag Team – “Whoomp! (There It Is!)”
• The Proclaimers – “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)”
• UB40 – “Can’t Help Falling in Love”
• Whitney Houston – “I Will Always Love You”

• Jurassic Park
• Mrs. Doubtfire
• The Fugitive
• Schindler's List
• The Firm
• Cliffhanger
• Sleepless in Seattle
• Philadelphia
• The Pelican Brief

• Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
• Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
• Beavis and Butt-Head
• Walker, Texas Ranger
• Sonic the Hedgehog
• Bill Nye the Science Guy
• The Nanny
• Diagnosis: Murder

• Doogie Howser, M.D.
• The Wonder Years
• Cheers
• Saved by the Bell
• Perfect Strangers
• Designing Women

• Home Improvement
• Seinfeld
• Roseanne
• Grace Under Fire
• Coach
• Frasier
• Murphy Brown
• Murder, She Wrote
• Northern Exposure
• Full House
• Fresh Prince of Bel Air
• Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman

• Ariana Grande - pop singer, "Bang Bang", "Side to Side"
• Zayn Malik - pop singer, best known as a member of the UK boy band One Direction; solo song "Pillowtalk" 
• Niall Horan - pop singer, best known as a member of the UK boy band One Direction; solo song "This Town" 
• Liam Payne - pop singer, best known as a member of the UK boy band One Direction
• Meghan Trainor - pop singer, "All About That Bass"
• Miranda Cosgrove - TV actress, "iCarly", "School of Rock", voices Margo in "Despicable Me"

• beanie babies
• Canada had first female Prime Minister, Kim Campbell
• Buckingham Palace opens its doors to the public
• Pentium microprocessor introduced by Intel
• Dyson sells its first bagless cyclonic vacuum cleaner

• back button
• body camera
• cosplay
• cybersurfer
• DVD
• dwarf planet
• e-commerce
• fashionista
• game changer
• web page
• website

Waco siege, a 51-day standoff between Branch Davidians and federal agents that ended on April 19, 1993, when the religious group’s compound near Waco, Texas, was destroyed in a fire. Nearly 80 people were killed.

The Maastricht Treaty signed on February 7th takes effect, formally establishing the European Union, with 12 nations: Great Britain, France, Germany, the Irish Republic, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Denmark, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands. Austria, Finland, and Sweden became members of the EU in 1995.

The tennis player Monica Seles is stabbed by a spectator during a quarter final tennis match in Hamburg by Günter Parche, an obsessed fan of Steffi Graf

Years of severe drought and extreme weather combined to create the deadliest bushfire in Australian history, until the Black Saturday bushfires in 2009. There were 75 fatalities, and it destroyed the world's second largest national park Royal National Park.

In the United Kingdom, 11-year-olds Robert Thompson and Jon Venables are convicted of the child murder of 2-year-old James Bulger of Liverpool. They boys lured James away from his mother at a mall. They dragged him across town where they smashed his skull with bricks and stones. 

Feb 26: a truck bomb detonated below the World Trade Center's North Tower. The bomb was intended to send the North Tower crashing into the South Tower, bringing both towers down and killing tens of thousands of people. It failed to do so but killed six people and injured over a thousand.

Beanie Babies were created by Ty Warner. They were unique because they are stuffed with plastic pellets ("beans") rather than conventional soft stuffing, giving Beanie Babies a more flexible feel. During the later half of the 1990s, the toy emerged as a major fad, and were collected not only as toys but also as a financial investment due to the high resale value of some Beanie Babies.

Brian Mulroney announces his plan to resign as Prime Minister, and Kim Campbell becomes the first female prime minister. In the Federal election, Jean Chrétien's Liberals win a majority, defeating Kim Campbell's PCs, which are reduced to two seats. Campbell loses her own seat. The Bloc Québécois form the official opposition.