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Great Flood of 1993: Levees near Kaskaskia, Illinois rupture, forcing the entire town to evacuate by barges operated by the Army Corps of Engineers.
Near Medellín, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison fearing extradition to the United States.
Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
Born: John Price, English cricketer.
Rif War: The Spanish Army suffers its worst military defeat in modern times to the Berbers of the Rif region of Spanish Morocco.
Albany, New York is formally chartered as a municipality by Governor Thomas Dongan.
Died: Pope Clement X (born 1590).
Election of Pope Dionysius after the death of Pope Sixtus II in the persecutions of Emperor Valerian in the previous year.