Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Informer" by Snow
In the UK:
"Young At Heart" by The Bluebells
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Los Angeles
(TIME Cover: April the 19th, 1993)
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Famous people born on the 24th of April: |
1533 - William I of Orange (d. 1584)
1934 - Shirley MacLaine, American actress and author
1942 - Barbra Streisand, American singer/actress
1952 - Jean-Paul Gaultier, French fashion designer
1954 - Captain Sensible, British guitarist (The Damned)
1957 - Boris Williams, British musician (The Cure)
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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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