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September 11th, 1993...

Today is Saturday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Dreamlover"
by Mariah Carey

In the UK:
"Mr Vain"
by Culture Beat
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Jobs in the Rockies

(TIME Cover: September the 6th, 1993)

 Famous people born on the 11th of September:

1182 - Minamoto no Yoriie, Japanese shogun (d. 1204)
1524 - Pierre de Ronsard, French poet (d. 1585)
1917 - Ferdinand Marcos, President of the Philippines (d. 1989)
1937 - Queen Paola Ruffo di Calabria of Belgium
1937 - Robert Crippen, American astronaut
1939 - Charles Geschke, American inventor and businessman
1940 - Brian de Palma, American film director
1943 - Mickey Hart, American drummer (Grateful Dead)
1965 - Moby, American musician
1966 - Princess Akishino, Wife of Prince Akishino, Japanese Imperial Family
1977 - Jon Buckland, British guitarist (Coldplay)

 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



Jerry Garcia / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 664, September 2, 1993

 

 
 
 
     

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