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May 27th, 1994...

Today is Friday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"I Swear"
by All-4-One

In the UK:
"Come On You Reds"
by Manchester United Football Squad
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Comet Hits Jupiter

(TIME Cover: May the 23rd, 1994)

 Famous people born on the 27th of May:

1332 - Ibn Khaldun, Arab historian (d. 1406)
1626 - William II, Prince of Orange (d. 1650)
1756 - King Maximilian I of Bavaria (d. 1825)
1818 - Amelia Bloomer, suffragette (d. 1894)
1894 - Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French writer (d. 1961)
1897 - John Cockcroft, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)
1922 - Christopher Lee, English actor
1923 - Henry Kissinger, United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1957 - Siouxsie Sioux, English musician (Siouxsie and the Banshees )
2006 - Shiloh Jolie-Pitt, Daughter of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt

 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



Cast of Melrose Place (Women) / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 682, May 19, 1994

 

 
 
 
     

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