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October 15th, 1993...

Today is Friday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Dreamlover"
by Mariah Carey

In the UK:
"Relight My Fire"
by Take That featuring Lulu
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: How Life Began

(TIME Cover: October the 11th, 1993)

 Famous people born on the 15th of October:

70 BC - Virgil, Roman poet (d. 19 BC)
1542 - Akbar, Jellaladin Mahommed, Mughal Emperor (died 160
1844 - Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (d. 1900)
1893 - King Carol II of Romania (d. 1953)
1915 - Yitzhak Shamir, Israeli politician
1926 - Michel Foucault, French philosopher (d. 1984)
1946 - Richard Carpenter, American musician (Carpenters)
1959 - Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York
1964 - Roberto Vittori, Italian astronaut
1968 - Didier Deschamps, French football player
2005 - Prince Christian of Denmark, Prince of Denmark

 The Nobel Peace Prize 1993


Nelson Mandela
1918-

with Frederik Willem de Klerk, for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa

South Africa



Photo: nobelprize.org


 Average price of a dozen eggs in 1993 (USA)



$0.87
     
Oscar of the best picture in 1993

Schindler's List
directed by Steven Spielberg
with Liam Neeson (Oskar Schindler) and Ralph Fiennes (Amon Goeth)

Designed in 1993

The Jamaica barstool
by Pepe Cortes

Rolling Stone Magazine cover



Dr. Dre & Snoop Doggy Dog / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 666, September 30, 1993

 

 
 
 
     

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