Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"This Used to Be My Playground" by Madonna
In the UK:
"Rhythm Is A Dancer" by Snap
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Doomsday Plan
(TIME Cover: August the 10th, 1992)
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Famous people born on the 12th of August: |
1503 - Christian III of Denmark and Norway (d. 1559)
1604 - Tokugawa Iemitsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1651)
1629 - Tsar Alexei I of Russia (d. 1676)
1643 - King Afonso VI of Portugal (d. 1683)
1762 - King George IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1830)
1881 - Cecil B. DeMille, American director (d. 1959)
1887 - Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1961)
1949 - Mark Knopfler, British guitarist (Dire Straits)
1971 - Pete Sampras, American tennis player
1981 - Djibril Cissé, French footballer
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1992 |
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Georges Charpak
1924-
for his invention and development of particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber
France
École Supérieure de Physique et Chimie - Paris, France; CERN - Geneva, Switzerland
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Average price of a dozen eggs in 1992 (USA) |
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$0.93 |
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Oscar of the best picture in 1992 |
Unforgiven
directed by Clint Eastwood
with Clint Eastwood (Bill Munny) and Gene Hackman (Little Bill Daggett)
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Designed in 1992 |
The Desk
by Marc Newson |
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