Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"I Will Always Love You" by Whitney Houston
In the UK:
"No Limit" by 2 Unlimited
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Cyberpunk
(TIME Cover: February the 8th, 1993)
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Famous people born on the 14th of February: |
1483 - Zahir al-Din Mohammed Babur Shah, Moghul emperor of India (d. 1530)
1869 - Charles Wilson, Scottish physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1959)
1943 - Maceo Parker, American musician (P-Funk)
1944 - Alan Parker, British film director and writer
1946 - Bernard Dowiyogo, President of Nauru (d. 2003)
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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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