| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" by Bryan Adams
In the UK:
"(Everything I Do) I Do It For You" by Bryan Adams
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Famous people born on the 15th of August: |
1171 - King Alfonso IX of Leon (d. 1230)
1769 - Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French (d. 1821
1771 - Sir Walter Scott, Scottish historical novelist (d. 1832)
1893 - Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer and computing pioneer (d. 1950)
1896 - Leon Theremin, Russian inventor (d. 1993)
1925 - Oscar Peterson, Canadian jazz pianist
1945 - Mahamandaleshwar Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda, Indian guru
1950 - The Princess Anne, Princess Royal of the United Kingdom
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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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