What happened in the UK in 1993?
Here are the biggest news, sports and entertainment stories of 1993 …
Britain’s longest recession since the 1930s officially ended as the economy grew during the first three months of the year. Conservatives took credit for the spike in fortunes, but critics said it was luck more than anything else. Yet it was accomplished, it was welcomed by the people of the nation who can now hope to spend again.
A new place they could pass is Buckingham Palace; the public was able to enter for the first time during the summer of ’93. With the entrance fee set at £ 8, it was not cheap, but that did nothing to curb demand; Within a week of going on sale, all group advance booking slots to visit Buckingham Palace had been filled for the next three years.
Other news included an oil tanker running aground near the Shetland Islands (causing 84,700 tonnes of crude oil to spill into the North Sea and a major ecological disaster); and anti-racist demonstrations taking place across London in response to the criminal charges that were dropped against two young men accused of murdering the black teenager Stephen Lawrence.
In the sporting world, the great horse racing event ‘The Grand National’ (with a worldwide audience of 300 million people) ended in ‘chaos’ after many of the riders did not realize that it was he had called a false start and was on his way. the race track. The Jockey Club was forced to declare the race deserted; meaning the bookies had to refund the £ 75 million in bets that had been placed on the race (and miss the biggest payday of the year!).
On a personal mission to solve the ‘mayhem’ related to aliens, were the FBI agents ‘Mulder & Scully’; his popular American series “The X Files” crossing the Atlantic to UK screens. Motivated by the belief that Mulder’s sister had been kidnapped by little green men, they set out to try to find the “truth.” One place where the truth was definitely not there was on the ‘Beavis & Butthead’ couch. These guys spent 93 becoming world famous for changing television channels and playing soccer with frogs.
With Britain itself still struggling to create its own blockbuster films, ‘Jurassic Park’ and ‘Indecent Proposal’ were the main films to hit theaters during the year. ‘Jurassic Park’ involved dinosaurs (actually quite scary, genuine!) Racing through a theme park created by an eccentric millionaire. ‘Indecent Proposal’ was another tale involving a rich man (this time a billionaire played by Robert Redford); This guy offers a couple, who had just lost a fortune in Las Vegas, $ 1 million to spend the night with his wife.