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August 8th, 1993...

Today is Sunday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Can't Help Falling in Love"
by UB40

In the UK:
"Pray"
by Take That
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Kids and Guns

(TIME Cover: August the 2nd, 1993)

 Famous people born on the 8th of August:

1079 - Emperor Horikawa of Japan (d. 1107)
1673 - John Ker, Scottish spy (d. 1726)
1879 - Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1919)
1902 - Paul Dirac, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1984)
1937 - Dustin Hoffman, American actor
1988 - Princess Beatrice of York

 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



Soul Asylum / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 662, August 5, 1993

 

 
 
 
     

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