January 5, 1993, was a Tuesday. It was 31 years, 10 months, and 17 days ago. The zodiac star sign for this date is Capricorn.
Songs that were on top of the charts in the USA and the United Kingdom on January 5, 1993:
These were the top five songs on the Billboard Hot 100 chart:
The movie "Aladdin" was at the top of the box office on January 5, 1993.
This date occurred 11,644 days ago. Approximately 388 months have passed. It was the 5th day of 1993, in week 01. The decade was the nineties. People who were born on January 5, 1993, are now 31 years old and belong to the Millennial generation. The Earth has experienced 129 seasons of weather since then.
Let's take a stroll down memory lane.
The date is January 5, 1993, and it's a Tuesday. Anyone born today will have the star sign Capricorn. People are starting to return back to work and school after the Christmas holidays.
The song "I Will Always Love You" by Whitney Houston is at the top of the music charts in the United States and the United Kingdom. George W. Bush Snr. is the President of the United States, and the movie Aladdin 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 "Murder, She Wrote", "In the Heat of the Night", "Roseanne", 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. Meanwhile, the country of Czechoslovakia has officially broken up into two separate countries: Slovakia and the Czech Republic. 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.
In the NFL, the Buffalo Bills have recently pulled off a historic comeback, overcoming a 32-point deficit to defeat the Houston Oilers by 41-38 in overtime. A new sci-fi series called "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" has just been aired on television. In Rochester, New York, over $7 million dollars has been stolen from a Brink's Armored Car Depot.
If you were to travel back to this day, notable figures such as Audrey Hepburn, Thurgood Marshall, Andre the Giant, and Bobby Moore would all still be alive. People are playing video games such as "Duck Hunt", "Yoshi", "Super Mario Kart", and "Tecmo NBA Basketball". Kids and teenagers are watching TV shows such as "Postman Pat", "Thomas the Tank Engine", "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", and "Barney & Friends".
Children are playing with toys such as Lego Pirates, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES), Pogs / Milkcaps, and Littlest Pet Shop.
These are news stories, trending topics, and fads that were popular on January 5, 1993.
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News stories, pop culture trends, and other events that happened around January 5, 1993.
Photographs of early 1990s fashion and hairstyles.
Television shows that people were watching in January 1993:
1993 saw the introduction of cars such as the BMW 3 Series Compact, the Ford Mustang SVT Cobra, the Mercedes-Benz C-Class, the Renault Laguna, the Kia Sportage, and the Lincoln Mark VIII.
Children and teenagers were watching the following cartoons and TV series:
Children were playing with the following toys and games:
Popular video games that people were playing in January 1993.
If you were born on this date, then it is unlikely that you will remember anything from the year 1993.
This is because humans find it difficult to retrieve memories of their early childhood.
If you are looking for some childhood nostalgia, then you should check out January 5, 1999, instead.
Celebrities, historical figures, and other notable people who were born on January 5.
National holidays and famous events that fall on January 5:
George W. Bush Snr. was the President of the United States on January 5, 1993.
John Major was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Albert Reynolds was the Taoiseach of Ireland.
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