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February 18th, 1993...

Today is Thursday !

 
 
 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 18th of February:

1516 - Queen Mary I of England (d. 1558)
1530 - Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1578)
1898 - Enzo Ferrari, Italian race car driver (d. 1988)
1903 - Nikolai Podgorny, President of the Soviet Union (d. 1983)
1932 - Milos Forman, Czech film director
1933 - Yoko Ono, Japanese-born singer
1947 - Princess Christina of the Netherlands
1954 - John Travolta, American actor
1973 - Claude Makélélé, French footballer

 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



David Letterman / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 650, February 18, 1993

 

 
 
 
     

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