Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"I've Been Thinking About You" by Londonbeat
In the UK:
"The One And Only" by Chesney Hawkes
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Simple Life, The
(TIME Cover: April the 8th, 1991)
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Famous people born on the 19th of April: |
1320 - King Peter I of Portugal (d. 1367)
1452 - King Ferdinand II of Aragon (d. 1504)
1793 - Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria (d. 1875)
1903 - Eliot Ness, American lawman (d. 1957)
1968 - Mswati III, King of Swaziland
1972 - Rivaldo, Brazilian footballer
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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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