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June 8th, 1994...

Today is Wednesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"I Swear"
by All-4-One

In the UK:
"Love Is All Around"
by Wet Wet Wet
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Dwight D. Eisenhower

(TIME Cover: June the 6th, 1994)

 Famous people born on the 8th of June:

1671 - Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer (d. 1751)
1810 - Robert Schumann, German composer (d. 1856)
1903 - Marguerite Yourcenar, French author (d. 1987)
1940 - Nancy Sinatra, American singer
1960 - Mick Hucknall, English singer and songwriter (Simply Red)
1962 - Nick Rhodes, English musician (Duran Duran)
1976 - Lindsay Davenport, American tennis legend
1983 - Nadia Petrova, Russian tennis player

 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



Kurt Cobain / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 683, June 2, 1994

 

 
 
 
     

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