| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Rush Rush" by Paula Abdul
In the UK:
"Any Dream Will Do" by Jason Donovan
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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 8th of July: |
1621 - Jean de la Fontaine, French writer (d. 1695)
1839 - John D. Rockefeller, American businessman (d. 1937)
1935 - Vitali Sevastyanov, cosmonaut
1951 - Anjelica Huston, American actress
1970 - Beck, American singer
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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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