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January 24th, 1994...

Today is Monday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"All for Love"
by Bryan Adams / Rod Stewart / Sting

In the UK:
"Things Can Only Get Better"
by D:Ream
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan

(TIME Cover: January the 24th, 1994)

 Famous people born on the 24th of January:

76 - Hadrian, Roman Emperor (d. 138)
1705 - Farinelli, Italian castrato (d. 1782)
1712 - King Frederick II of Prussia (d. 1786)
1732 - Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, French playwright (d. 1799)
1944 - Klaus Nomi, German singer (d. 1983)
1959 - Nastassja Kinski, German-born actress

 The Nobel Peace Prize 1994


Yitzhak Rabin
1922-1995

with Yasser Arafat and Shimon Peres, for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East

Israel
Prime Minister of Israel



Photo: nobelprize.org


 Average price of a dozen eggs in 1994 (USA)



$0.87
     
Oscar of the best picture in 1994

Forrest Gump
directed by Robert Zemeckis
with Tom Hanks (Forrest Gump) and Gary Sinise (Lieutenant Dan)

Designed in 1994

The Salsa lounge seating
by Paul aferiat and Peter Stamberg

Rolling Stone Magazine cover



Bill Clinton / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 671, December 9, 1993

 

 
 
 
     

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