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October 24th, 1991...

Today is Thursday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Emotions"
by Mariah Carey

In the UK:
"(Everything I Do) I Do It For You"
by Bryan Adams
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas

(TIME Cover: October the 21st, 1991)

 Famous people born on the 24th of October:

51 - Domitian, Roman Emperor (d. 96)
1503 - Isabella of Portugal, queen of Spain and empress of Germany, wife of Charles I of Spain
1901 - Gilda Gray, Polish-born American actress and dancer (d. 1959)
1915 - Bob Kane, American cartoonist (d. 1998)
1930 - Sultan Ahmad Shah, King of Malaysia
1932 - Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1936 - Bill Wyman, English musician (The Rolling Stones)
1940 - Martin Campbell, New Zealand film director
1980 - Monica, American singer

 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1991


Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
1932-

for discovering that methods developed for studying order phenomena in simple systems can be generalized to more complex forms of matter, in particular to liquid crystals and polymers

France
Collège de France - Paris, France



Photo: nobelprize.org


 Average price of a dozen eggs in 1991 (USA)



$1.01 
     
Oscar of the best picture in 1991

The Silence of the Lambs
directed by Jonathan Demme
with Anthony Hopkins (Dr. Hannibal Lecter) and Jodie Foster (Clarice Starling)

Designed in 1991

The Älgskinnsfåtöljen
by Mats Theselius

Rolling Stone Magazine cover



Eric Clapton / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 615, October 17, 1991

 

 
 
 
     

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