Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Baby Baby" by Amy Grant
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: Nuclear Power
(TIME Cover: April the 29th, 1991)
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Famous people born on the 29th of April: |
534 - Taliesin, the bard, Welsh poet, according to legend in Mabinogion
1854 - Henri Poincaré, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1912)
1899 - Duke Ellington, American jazz pianist and bandleader (d. 1974)
1901 - Hirohito, Emperor of Japan (d. 1989)
1954 - Jerry Seinfeld, American comedian
1958 - Michelle Pfeiffer, American actress
1970 - Andre Agassi, American tennis player
1970 - Uma Thurman, American actress
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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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