Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Someday" by Mariah Carey
In the UK:
"Should I Stay Or Should I Go" by The Clash
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Famous people born on the 20th of March: |
43 BC - Ovid, Roman poet (d. 17)
1725 - Abdul Hamid I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1789)
1737 - Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke, King of Thailand (d. 1809)
1811 - Napoleon II of France (d. 1832)
1957 - Spike Lee, American film director
1964 - Natacha Atlas, Belgian singer
1972 - Alexander Kapranos, British musician (Franz Ferdinand)
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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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