December 22nd, 1991

December 22nd, 1991...

Today is Sunday !

Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "Black or White" by Michael Jackson In the UK: "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Pearl Harbor Remembered

(TIME Cover: December the 2nd, 1991)

Famous people born on the 22nd of December:

1178 - Emperor Antoku of Japan (d. 1185)
1639 - Jean Racine, French dramatist (d. 1699)
1666 - Guru Gobind Singh, Sikh guru (d. 1708)
1690 - Meidingnu Pamheiba, King of Manipur (d. 1751)
1858 - Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer (d. 1924)
1898 - Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock, Russian physicist (d. 1974)
1942 - Dick Parry, English musician (Pink Floyd)
1949 - Maurice Gibb, English musician (The Bee Gees) (d. 2003)
1949 - Robin Gibb, English musician (The Bee Gees)
1972 - Vanessa Paradis, French singer and actress
1974 - Heather Donahue, American actress, famous for her role in The Blair Witch Project

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

Metallica / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 617, November 14, 1991

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