Paris (AFP) – The United States have not won the Ryder Cup in Europe since 1993 — the year which saw Bill Clinton become US President and the formation of the European Union.
Ahead of the golf showdown in Paris in a week’s time, AFP Sport looks at the main world events of 1993, the same year current American players Jordan Spieth, Justin Thomas and Bryson DeChambeau were born:
January
— Dissolution of Czechoslovakia, becoming Slovakia and the Czech Republic in the ‘Velvet Divorce’.
— Jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie dies at the age of 75, British actress Audrey Hepburn dies of cancer aged 63.
February
— Bombing at the World Trade Center in New York kills six people and injures over 1,000.
March
— 257 people killed by bombings in the then-Bombay, India.
April
— CERN announces that the World Wide Web will be free to use.
— World Health Organisation declares global health emergency after resurgence of tuberculosis.
— Women’s world no. 1 tennis player Monica Seles is stabbed by a crazed Steffi Graf fan in Hamburg.
— South African Communist Party leader Chris Hani, strong opponent of the apartheid government, is assassinated.
May
— Manchester United win inaugural English Premier League, the first of 13 league titles won under manager Alex Ferguson.
June
— US launches cruise missiles strike on Iraq in response to attempted assassination of former American President George Bush Senior by alleged Iraqi agents in April.
— Former US First Lady Pat Nixon dies aged 81.
July
— King Baudouin of Belgium dies aged 62.
September
— Russia withdraws its troops from Poland.
— Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shake hands for the first time at the White House.
October
— Battle of Mogadishu.
November
— European Union is formed as Maastricht Treaty comes into force.
December
— Drug lord Pablo Escobar is killed by Colombian police.
— Interim South African Constitution approved, as the country nears end to apartheid, with Nelson Mandela and Frederik Willem de Klerk sharing the Nobel Peace Prize.