March 27, 1993

Popular songs

On March 27, 1993, the following songs were at the top of the music charts in the USA and the UK:

• United States: "Informer" by Snow
• United Kingdom: "Oh Carolina" by Shaggy

Facts

This date occurred 11,346 days ago. Approximately 378 months have passed. It was the 86th day of 1993, in week 12. The decade was the nineties. People who were born on March 27, 1993, are now 31 years old and belong to the Millennial generation. 126 seasons of weather have come and gone since then.

Take me back to March 27, 1993

Let's go back to the nineties.

The date is March 27, 1993, and it's a Saturday. Babies who are born today will have the star sign Aries. The work week is over and Saturday has finally come, so people are spending time with their kids, going to bars, shopping, playing video games, and watching sports.

Spring has arrived, and the days are starting to get longer. In America, the song "Informer" by Snow is at the top of the singles charts, while "Oh Carolina" by Shaggy is the number-one song in the UK. Bill Clinton is the President of the United States, and the movie Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III is at the top of the box office.

John Major is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. On television, people are watching popular shows such as "Matlock", "Baywatch", "Melrose Place", and "Martin". Texting is not a thing yet. Instead, people are using landline phones and pagers. Furthermore, most people have never heard of the Internet.

A civil war is taking place in the African country of Rwanda. In fashion, many of the trends from the late 1980s are still in vogue. Colored tights, denim overalls, leotards, flannel shirts, and shoulder pads are all fashionable at the moment. Grunge fashion has also become mainstream, popularizing band t-shirts, ripped jeans, mom jeans, and Doc Martens. A war is continuing to rage in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Meanwhile, in technology news, a relatively new storage format called the CD is beginning to outpace the regular cassette tape in music sales. The disc-based format gives listeners the ability to skip between songs instead of having to manually rewind and forward. A playing discs game called "Pogs" is currently spreading in popularity throughout the world. It's 1993, so radio stations are being dominated by the likes of Meat Loaf, UB40, Snow, Haddaway, Whitney Houston, Take That, Janet Jackson and Mariah Carey.

At a compound in Waco, Texas, a standoff is still ongoing between the FBI and a religious sect called the Branch Davidians. In Ireland, American woman Annie McCarrick has recently gone missing under suspicious circumstances. The New York Times has recently published Kevin Carter's photograph of a starving child being stalked by a vulture in Sudan. There have been strong reactions to the image, and many people are donating money to humanitarian organizations.

If you were to travel back to this day, notable figures such as Brandon Lee, Conway Twitty, Dražen Petrović, and Pat Nixon would all still be alive. People are playing video games such as "Desert Strike ", "Yoshi", "Super Mario Kart", and "Sonic the Hedgehog 2". Kids and teenagers are watching TV shows such as "Adventures of the Little Koala", "Full House", "The Adventures of Pete & Pete", and "Batman: The Animated Series".

Children are playing with toys such as Jenga, the Game Boy, Lego Pirates, and the SEGA Game Gear.