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April 17th, 1991...

Today is Wednesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"I've Been Thinking About You"
by Londonbeat

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

TIME Magazine: Simple Life, The

(TIME Cover: April the 8th, 1991)

 Famous people born on the 17th of April:

1734 - Taksin, King of Thailand (d. 1782)
1837 - J.P. Morgan, American financier and philanthropist (d. 1913)
1894 - Nikita Khrushchev, Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1971)
1918 - William Holden, American actor (d. 1981)
1946 - Georges J.F. Kohler, German biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1995)
1959 - Sean Bean, English actor

 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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