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:
"(I Can't Help) Falling In Love With You" by UB40
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Global Prostitution
(TIME Cover: June the 21st, 1993)
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Famous people born on the 24th of June: |
1340 - John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (d. 1399)
1900 - Wilhelm Cauer, German mathematician (d. 1945)
1948 - Patrick Moraz, Swiss keyboard player (Yes)
1949 - John Illsley, British bassist (Dire Straits)
1961 - Curt Smith, musician and songwriter (Tears for Fears)
1970 - Glenn Medeiros, American 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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