Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"I'd Do Anything for Love (but I Won't Do That)" by Meat Loaf
In the UK:
"I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)" by Meat Loaf
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Sigmund Freud
(TIME Cover: November the 29th, 1993)
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Famous people born on the 5th of December: |
1377 - Jianwen Emperor of China (d. 1402)
1443 - Pope Julius II (d. 1513)
1782 - Martin Van Buren, 8th President of the United States (d. 1862)
1890 - Fritz Lang, Austrian-born film director (d. 1976)
1898 - Josh Malihabadi, Urdu poet of India and Pakistan (d. 1982)
1901 - Walt Disney, American animated film producer (d. 1966)
1927 - Bhumibol Adulyadej, King of Thailand
1932 - Little Richard (Richard Wayne Penniman), American singer and pianist
1979 - Matteo Ferrari, Italy footballer
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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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