Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"That's the Way Love Goes" by Janet Jackson
In the UK:
"Five Live EP" by George Michael & Queen with Lisa Stansfield
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Famous people born on the 19th of May: |
1881 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, First President of Turkey (d. 1938)
1890 - Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese leader (d. 1969)
1925 - Malcolm X, American civil rights activist (d. 1965)
1925 - Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator and mass murderer (d. 1998)
1945 - Pete Townshend, English guitarist and lyricist (The Who)
1948 - Grace Jones, Jamaican singer and actress
1949 - Dusty Hill, American blues rock singer/bassist (ZZ Top)
1951 - Joey Ramone, American musician and singer (The Ramones) (d. 2001)
1963 - Yazz, British singer
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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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