August 25th, 1991

August 25th, 1991...

Today is Sunday !

Number-one song in the charts today
	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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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: John McCarthy and Terry Anderson

(TIME Cover: August the 19th, 1991)

Famous people born on the 25th of August:

1530 - Tsar Ivan IV of Russia (d. 1584)
1772 - King William I of the Netherlands (d. 1843)
1786 - King Ludwig I of Bavaria (d. 1868)
1819 - Allan Pinkerton, American private detective (d. 1884)
1845 - King Ludwig II of Bavaria (d. 1886)
1918 - Leonard Bernstein, American conductor, composer, educator and pianist (d. 1990)
1930 - Sir Sean Connery, British actor
1949 - Gene Simmons, Israeli-born bassist and singer (KISS)
1951 - Rob Halford, English singer (Judas Priest)
1954 - Elvis Costello, English musician
1958 - Tim Burton, American film director, producer, and screenwriter

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

Tom Petty / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 610, August 8, 1991

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