October started on a Friday. – The Battle of Mogadishu (later Black Hawk Down ) occurs, a disastrous U.S. military firefight in Somalia. The images of a dead American soldier being dragged through the streets would shift U.S. foreign policy for years.
April began on a Thursday. The defining image of this month is the end of the 51-day Waco siege in Texas. On , the Branch Davidian compound burned, killing 76 people. It was a trauma that would echo 27 years later in the Oklahoma City bombing (on the same date). calendar of 1993
Back in '93, Elias was just a boy with a charcoal stick and a dream. He didn’t have art books or formal training; he had that calendar. Every day, he would sit on the cool linoleum floor and trace the strokes of masters like and Nsikak Essien , who graced its monthly pages. He learned how to capture the weight of a shadow and the curve of a smile by staring at those ink-printed masterpieces until his eyes blurred [17]. October started on a Friday