Scene 1 - January 1993

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January 1 - Dissolution of Czechoslovakia: Slovakia and the Czech Republic separate in the so-called Velvet Divorce.
January 1 - The European Community eliminates trade barriers and creates a European single market.
January 1 - EuroNews is launched in Europe.
January 1 - ITV companies GMTV, Carlton Television, Meridian Broadcasting and Westcountry Television start broadcasting, replacing TV-am, Thames Television, TVS and TSW respectively.
January 3 - In Moscow, George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.
January 5 - The state of Washington executes Westley Allan Dodd by hanging (the first legal hanging in America since 1965).

Bill Clinton inaugurated as President of the United States.
January 5 - $7.4 million USD is stolen from Brinks Armored Car Depot in Rochester, New York in the 5th largest robbery in U.S. history. Four men, Samuel Millar, Father Patrick Moloney, former Rochester Police officer Thomas O'Connor, and Charles McCormick, all of whom have ties to the Provisional Irish Republican Army, are accused.
January 5 - M/V Braer, a Liberian oil tanker, runs aground off the Scottish island of Mainland, causing a massive oil spill.
January 6 - Douglas Hurd is the first high-ranking British official to visit Argentina since the Falklands War.
January 7 - The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated, with Jerry Rawlings as president.
January 14 - The Polish ferry M/S Jan Heweliusz sinks off the coast of Rügen in the Baltic Sea, killing 54 people.
January 15 - Salvatore Riina, the Mafia boss known as 'The Beast', is arrested in Palermo, Sicily after 23 years as a fugitive.
January 19 - IBM announces a $4.97 billion loss for 1992, the largest single-year corporate loss in United States history to date.
January 19 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq refuses to allow UNSCOM inspectors to use its own aircraft to fly into Iraq, and begins military operations in the demilitarized zone between Iraq and Kuwait, and the northern Iraqi no-fly zones. U.S. forces fire approximately 40 Tomahawk cruise missiles at Baghdad factories linked to Iraq's illegal nuclear weapons program. Iraq then informs UNSCOM that it will be able to resume its flights.
January 20 - Bill Clinton succeeds George H.W. Bush as the 42nd President of the United States.
January 24 - In Turkey, thousands protest the murder of journalist Uğur Mumcu.
January 25 - Mir Aimal Kasi fires a rifle and kills 2 employees outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
January 25 - Social democrat Poul Nyrup Rasmussen succeeds conervative Poul Schlüter as Prime Minister of Denmark.
January 26 - Václav Havel is elected President of the Czech Republic.
January 31 - Super Bowl XXVII: The Buffalo Bills become the first team to lose 3 consecutive Super Bowls as they are defeated by the Dallas Cowboys, 52-17.