| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"You're in Love" by Wilson Phillips
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: Nancy Reagan
(TIME Cover: April the 22nd, 1991)
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Famous people born on the 25th of April: |
32 - Marcus Salvius Otho, Roman Emperor (d. 69)
1214 - King Louis IX of France (d. 1270)
1228 - Conrad IV of Germany (d. 1254)
1284 - King Edward II of England (d. 1327)
1874 - Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1937)
1917 - Ella Fitzgerald, American singer (d. 1996)
1940 - Al Pacino, American actor
1945 - Björn Ulvaeus, Swedish singer and songwriter (ABBA)
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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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