1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1993rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 993rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 93rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1990s decade.
The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands only had 364 days when its calendar advanced 24 hours to the Eastern Hemisphere side of the International Date Line by skipping August 21, 1993.[1]