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February 15th, 1993...

Today is Monday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"I Will Always Love You"
by Whitney Houston

In the UK:
"No Limit"
by 2 Unlimited
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Chemistry of Love

(TIME Cover: February the 15th, 1993)

 Famous people born on the 15th of February:

1471 - Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (d. 1503)
1564 - Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and physicist (d. 1642)
1710 - King Louis XV of France (d. 1774)
1723 - John Witherspoon, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1794)
1809 - Cyrus McCormick, American inventor (d. 1884)
1882 - John Barrymore, American actor (d. 1942)
1944 - Mick Avory, British drummer (The Kinks)
1945 - John Helliwell, British musician (Supertramp)
1946 - Marisa Berenson, American actress
1959 - Ali Campbell, British musician (UB40)

 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



Neneh Cherry / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 649, February 4, 1993

 

 
 
 
     

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