| 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:
"Living On My Own" by Freddie Mercury
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Crime in America
(TIME Cover: August the 23rd, 1993)
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Famous people born on the 27th of August: |
1407 - Ashikaga Yoshikazu, Japanese shogun (d. 1425)
1770 - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher (d. 1831)
1890 - Man Ray, photographer and artist (d. 1976)
1908 - Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States (d. 1973)
1915 - Norman F. Ramsey, Nobel Prize laureate
1959 - Gerhard Berger, Austrian race car driver
1976 - Carlos Moya, Spanish tennis player
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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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