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March 4th, 1991...

Today is Monday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"All the Man That I Need"
by Whitney Houston

In the UK:
"Do The Bartman"
by The Simpsons
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Allied Troops Enter Kuwait

(TIME Cover: March the 4th, 1991)

 Famous people born on the 4th of March:

1188 - Blanche of Castile, wife of Louis VIII (d. 1252)
1678 - Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer (d. 1741)
1792 - Samuel Slocum, American inventor (d. 1861)
1859 - Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist (d. 1905)
1877 - Garrett Morgan, American inventor (d. 1963)
1914 - Ward Kimball, American cartoonist (d. 2002)
1951 - Chris Rea, British singer
1952 - Umberto Tozzi, Italian singer
1962 - Lolo Ferrari, French actress (d. 2000)

 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



Robin Williams / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 598, February 28, 1991

 

 
 
 
     

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