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April 11, 1993

On April 11, 1993, four hundred fifty prisoners riot at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and would continue to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions, as well as the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis) against their religious beliefs. The year's #1 song was "I Will Always Love You" by Whitney Houston. Florin Andone, Robin Anderson, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins would arrive in the same year.

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Four hundred fifty prisoners riot at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and would continue to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions, as well as the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis) against their religious beliefs.

A prison riot is an act of concerted defiance or disorder by a group of prisoners against the prison administrators, prison officers, or other groups of prisoners.

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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.

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On April 11, 1993

  1. 1993 Four hundred fifty prisoners riot at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and would continue to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions, as well as the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis) against their religious beliefs.

    Organized act of defiance by prisoners against each other or the prison administration

    A prison riot is an act of concerted defiance or disorder by a group of prisoners against the prison administrators, prison officers, or other groups of prisoners.

  2. 1993 Guillem Agulló, pro-Catalan independence and anti-fascist Valencian young activist, is assassinated by a group of Spanish nationalists and neo-nazis in Montanejos.

    Guillem Agulló i Salvador was a young Valencian active in the pro-independence and revolutionary political organization Maulets. He was murdered on April 11, 1993 at age 18.

Arrivals

Born on April 11, 1993

Florin Andone 1993– Romanian footballer (born 1993)

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Others born in 1993

Florin Andone 1993– Romanian footballer
Robin Anderson 1993– American tennis player
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins 1993– Canadian ice hockey player
Melvin Gordon 1993– American football player
Darrun Hilliard 1993– American basketball player
Felipe Anderson 1993– Brazilian footballer

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