| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Can't Help Falling in Love" by UB40
In the UK:
"Pray" by Take That
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Maya Culture
(TIME Cover: August the 9th, 1993)
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Famous people born on the 12th of August: |
1503 - Christian III of Denmark and Norway (d. 1559)
1604 - Tokugawa Iemitsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1651)
1629 - Tsar Alexei I of Russia (d. 1676)
1643 - King Afonso VI of Portugal (d. 1683)
1762 - King George IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1830)
1881 - Cecil B. DeMille, American director (d. 1959)
1887 - Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1961)
1949 - Mark Knopfler, British guitarist (Dire Straits)
1971 - Pete Sampras, American tennis player
1981 - Djibril Cissé, French footballer
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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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