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September 21st, 1993...

Today is Tuesday !

 
 
 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: Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat

(TIME Cover: September the 13th, 1993)

 Famous people born on the 21st of September:

1328 - Hongwu Emperor of China (d. 1398)
1415 - Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1493)
1428 - Jingtai Emperor of China (d. 1457)
1840 - Murad V, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1904)
1842 - Abd-ul-Hamid II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1918)
1866 - H. G. Wells, English writer (d. 1946)
1931 - Larry Hagman, American actor
1934 - Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer and songwriter
1941 - R. James Woolsey, Jr., CIA director
1947 - Stephen King, American author
1947 - Don Felder, American guitarist (Eagles)
1951 - Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen rebel leader (d. 2005)
1957 - Ethan Coen, American film director
1972 - Liam Gallagher, British singer (Oasis)

 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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