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October 16th, 1995...

Today is Monday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Fantasy"
by Mariah Carey

In the UK:
"Fairground"
by Simply Red
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: O.J. Simpson

(TIME Cover: October the 16th, 1995)

 Famous people born on the 16th of October:

1430 - King James II of Scotland (d. 1460)
1535 - Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (d. 1585)
1841 - Prince Hirobumi Ito, Japanese governor of Korea (d. 1909)
1854 - Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (d. 1900)
1863 - Austen Chamberlain, English statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1937)
1886 - David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1973)
1914 - Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan
1927 - Günter Grass, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate
1947 - Bob Weir, American musician (Grateful Dead)
1962 - Flea, Australian musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)

 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



Foo Fighters / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 718, October 5, 1995

 

 
 
 
     

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