Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"I Adore Mi Amor" by Color Me Badd
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: Vanishing Cultures
(TIME Cover: September the 23rd, 1991)
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Famous people born on the 27th of September: |
551 BC - Confucius, Chinese philosopher (d. 479 BC)
1667 - Asano Naganori, Japanese warlord (d. 1701)
1841 - Georges Clemenceau, French politician (d. 1929)
1924 - Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (d. 1996)
1934 - Brigitte Bardot, French actress
1960 - Jennifer Rush, American pop singer
1972 - Dita Von Teese, American burlesque artist
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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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