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April 1st, 1991...

Today is Monday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Coming Out of the Dark"
by Gloria Estefan

In the UK:
"The One And Only"
by Chesney Hawkes
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Why Cops Turn Violent

(TIME Cover: April the 1st, 1991)

 Famous people born on the 1st of April:

1220 - Emperor Go-Saga of Japan (d. 1272)
1732 - Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (d. 1809)
1815 - Otto von Bismarck, 1st Chancellor of the German Empire (d. 1898)
1868 - Edmond Rostand, French dramatist (d. 1918)
1873 (N.S.) - Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer, pianist, and conductor (d. 1943)
1929 - Milan Kundera, Czech writer
1933 - Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1948 - Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican musician
1983 - Franck Ribery, French footballer

 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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