Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Coming Out of the Dark" by Gloria Estefan
In the UK:
"The One And Only" by Chesney Hawkes
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Famous people born on the 6th of April: |
1483 - Raphael, Italian painter and architect (d. 1520)
1671 - Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet (d. 1741)
1820 - Nadar, French photographer (d. 1910)
1903 - Doc Edgerton, American electrical engineer (d. 1990)
1928 - James D. Watson, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1965 - Frank Black, American singer/songwriter (Pixies)
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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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