Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Unbelievable" by EMF
In the UK:
"(Everything I Do) I Do It For You" by Bryan Adams
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Who Are Americans?
(TIME Cover: July the 8th, 1991)
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Famous people born on the 21st of July: |
356 BC - Alexander the Great
1414 - Pope Sixtus IV (d. 1484)
1899 - Ernest Hemingway, American writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1961)
1948 - Cat Stevens, English singer
1951 - Robin Williams, American comedian
1961 - 'Big' Jim Martin, American musician (Faith No More)
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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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