Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Again" by Janet Jackson
In the UK:
"Babe" by Take That
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Fidel Castro
(TIME Cover: December the 6th, 1993)
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Famous people born on the 21st of December: |
1921 - Vampira (Maila Nurmi), Finnish-born actress
1937 - Jane Fonda, American actress and activist
1940 - Frank Zappa, American singer, guitarist and composer (d. 1993)
1942 - Hu Jintao, President of the People's Republic of China
1946 - Carl Wilson, American singer and guitarist (The Beach Boys) (d. 1998)
1954 - Chris Evert, American tennis player
1969 - Julie Delpy, French actress
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The Nobel Peace Prize 1993 |
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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
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Average price of a dozen eggs in 1993 (USA) |
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$0.87 |
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Oscar of the best picture in 1993 |
Schindler's List
directed by Steven Spielberg
with Liam Neeson (Oskar Schindler) and Ralph Fiennes (Amon Goeth)
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Designed in 1993 |
The Jamaica barstool
by Pepe Cortes |
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