kakorama: a ride into the past
 

 

January 20th, 1995...

Today is Friday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"On Bended Knee"
by Boyz II Men

In the UK:
"Cotton Eye Joe"
by Rednex
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Girth of a Nation

(TIME Cover: January the 16th, 1995)

 Famous people born on the 20th of January:

225 - Gordian III, Roman Emperor (d. 244)
1435 - Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese shogun (d. 1490)
1554 - King Sebastian of Portugal (d. 1578)
1716 - King Charles III of Spain (d. 1788)
1775 - Andre Marie Ampere, French physicist (d. 1836)
1804 - Eugène Sue, French novelist (d. 1857)
1906 - Aristotle Onassis, Greek industrialist (d. 1975)
1920 - Federico Fellini, Italian film director (d. 1993)
1930 - Edwin Eugene 'Buzz' Aldrin, Jr., astronaut
1931 - David Lee, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate
1946 - David Lynch, American film director

 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1995


Frederick Reines
1918-1998

for the detection of the neutrino

USA
University of California - Irvine, CA, USA



Photo: nobelprize.org


 Average price of a dozen eggs in 1995 (USA)



$1.16
     
Oscar of the best picture in 1995

Braveheart
directed by Mel Gibson
with Mel Gibson (William wallace) and Sophie Marceau (Princess Isabelle)

Designed in 1995

The Tato family
by Enrico Baleri and Denis Santachiara

Rolling Stone Magazine cover



David Letterman / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 698/699, December 29, 1994

 

 
 
 
     

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