1993 Russian constitutional crisis
President and parliament clash; tanks fire on the White House
On 21 September 1993 Boris Yeltsin dissolved the Congress and Supreme Soviet by decree, which the constitution did not allow; parliament removed him and named Alexander Rutskoy president. On 3 October its supporters seized the mayor's office and stormed Ostankino; on the 4th the army shelled the White House with tanks; 147 died, officially.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty — 25 years earlier
- 1980 Smallpox declared eradicated — 13 years earlier
- 1981 AIDS first described — 12 years earlier
- 1997 Kyoto Protocol — 4 years later
- 2008 Global financial crisis — 15 years later
Europe
- 1989 Invention of the World Wide Web — 4 years earlier
- 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall — 4 years earlier
- 1990 German reunification — 3 years earlier
- 1991–2001 Yugoslav Wars — 2 years earlier
- 1992 Maastricht Treaty — 1 year earlier
Middle East
- 1989 9 April tragedy in Tbilisi — 4 years earlier
- 1990–1991 Gulf War — 3 years earlier
- 1990 Black January in Baku — 3 years earlier
- 1992–1993 War in Abkhazia — 1 year earlier
- 1993 Oslo Accords — same year
Africa
- 1974 Lucy is discovered — 19 years earlier
- 1983–1985 The Ethiopian famine — 10 years earlier
- 1994 End of apartheid in South Africa — 1 year later
- 1998–2003 Second Congo War — 5 years later
- 2011 Independence of South Sudan — 18 years later
Asia
- 1975–1979 The Khmer Rouge and the Cambodian genocide — 18 years earlier
- 1991 Eruption of Mount Pinatubo — 2 years earlier
- 1992–1997 Tajikistani Civil War — 1 year earlier
- 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami — 11 years later
- 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami — 18 years later
Americas
- 1969 Moon landing — 24 years earlier
- c. 1970 Mass deforestation of the Amazon begins — 23 years earlier
- 1983 ARPANET adopts TCP/IP — 10 years earlier
- 1990 Launch of the Hubble Space Telescope — 3 years earlier
- 2001 September 11 attacks — 8 years later
Oceania
- 1992 The Mabo decision — 1 year earlier
Alive at the time
- Nelson Mandela (aged 75)
- Neil Armstrong (aged 63)
- Mother Teresa (aged 83)
- Ronald Reagan (aged 82)
- Richard Nixon (aged 80)
- Edmund Hillary (aged 74)
- Henry Kissinger (aged 70)
- Jimmy Carter (aged 69)
- Margaret Thatcher (aged 68)
- Fidel Castro (aged 67)