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July 1st, 1991...

Today is Monday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Rush Rush"
by Paula Abdul

In the UK:
"Any Dream Will Do"
by Jason Donovan
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Inside the Cocaine Business

(TIME Cover: July the 1st, 1991)

 Famous people born on the 1st of July:

1481 - Christian II of Denmark, Sweden and Norway (d. 1559)
1506 - Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1526)
1534 - Frederick II of Denmark (d. 1588)
1646 - Gottfried Leibniz, German mathematician (d. 1716)
1804 - George Sand, French writer (d. 1876)
1906 - Estée Lauder, American entrepreneur (d. 2004)
1931 - Leslie Caron, French actress
1934 - Sydney Pollack, American film director
1945 - Deborah Harry, American musician, (Blondie)
1951 - Fred Schneider, American singer (The B-52's)
1961 - Diana, Princess of Wales, (d. 1997)
1961 - Carl Lewis, American athlete
1967 - Pamela Anderson, Canadian model and actress

 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



REM / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 607, June 27, 1991

 

 
 
 
     

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