| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"On Bended Knee" by Boyz II Men
In the UK:
"Stay Another Day" by East 17
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Newt Gingrich
(TIME Cover: January the 9th, 1995)
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Famous people born on the 12th of January: |
1628 - Charles Perrault, French folklorist (d. 1703)
1876 - Jack London, American author (d. 1916)
1902 - Saud of Saudi Arabia (d. 1969)
1907 - Sergei Korolev, Russian rocket scientist (d. 1966)
1949 - Haruki Murakami, Japanese novelist
1959 - Blixa Bargeld, German singer (Einstürzende Neubauten)
1989 - Zeeshan Aslam, Pakistani Prince
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1995 |
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Frederick Reines
1918-1998
for the detection of the neutrino
USA
University of California - Irvine, CA, USA
Photo: nobelprize.org
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| Average price of a dozen eggs in 1995 (USA) |
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$1.16 |
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Oscar of the best picture in 1995 |
Braveheart
directed by Mel Gibson
with Mel Gibson (William wallace) and Sophie Marceau (Princess Isabelle)
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Designed in 1995 |
The Tato family
by Enrico Baleri and Denis Santachiara |
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