Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"All the Man That I Need" by Whitney Houston
In the UK:
"Do The Bartman" by The Simpsons
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: End in Sight, The
(TIME Cover: February the 25th, 1991)
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Famous people born on the 1st of March: |
1445 - Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (d. 1510)
1456 - King Ladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary (d. 1516)
1810 - Frédéric Chopin, Polish-French composer and pianist (d. 1849)
1922 - Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1995)
1927 - Harry Belafonte, American musician and actor
1935 - Robert Conrad, American actor
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1991 |
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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
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Average price of a dozen eggs in 1991 (USA) |
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$1.01 |
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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)
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Designed in 1991 |
The Älgskinnsfåtöljen
by Mats Theselius |
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