Waco siege
A 51-day standoff between a sect and the FBI ends in fire
On 28 February 1993 federal ATF agents arrived with a warrant at the Branch Davidian ranch near Waco, but the group had been tipped off: four agents and six Davidians died. The siege lasted 51 days; on 19 April the FBI pumped in tear gas, fire broke out, and 76 people died, including leader David Koresh and more than 20 children.
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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
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1985–1991 Perestroika — 8 years earlier
- 1989 Revolutions of 1989 — 4 years earlier
- 1991 Dissolution of the Soviet Union — 2 years earlier
- 1993 1993 Russian constitutional crisis — same year
- 1994–1996 First Chechen War — 1 year later
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
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)