August 25th, 1993

August 25th, 1993...

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Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "Can't Help Falling in Love" by UB40 In the UK: "Living On My Own" by Freddie Mercury

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Crime in America

(TIME Cover: August the 23rd, 1993)

Famous people born on the 25th of August:

1530 - Tsar Ivan IV of Russia (d. 1584)
1772 - King William I of the Netherlands (d. 1843)
1786 - King Ludwig I of Bavaria (d. 1868)
1819 - Allan Pinkerton, American private detective (d. 1884)
1845 - King Ludwig II of Bavaria (d. 1886)
1918 - Leonard Bernstein, American conductor, composer, educator and pianist (d. 1990)
1930 - Sir Sean Connery, British actor
1949 - Gene Simmons, Israeli-born bassist and singer (KISS)
1951 - Rob Halford, English singer (Judas Priest)
1954 - Elvis Costello, English musician
1958 - Tim Burton, American film director, producer, and screenwriter

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

Beavis & Butthead / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 663, August 19, 1993

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