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July 19th, 1991...

Today is Friday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Rush Rush"
by Paula Abdul

In the UK:
"(Everything I Do) I Do It For You"
by Bryan Adams
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Who Are Americans?

(TIME Cover: July the 8th, 1991)

 Famous people born on the 19th of July:

1814 - Samuel Colt, American firearms inventor (d. 1862)
1893 - Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian poet (d. 1930)
1946 - Ilie Nastase, Romanian tennis player
1947 - Bernie Leadon, American musician (The Eagles)
1947 - Brian May, English guitarist (Queen)

 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



Rod Stewart & Rachel Hunter / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 608/609, July 11, 1991

 

 
 
 
     

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