| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Fantasy" by Mariah Carey
In the UK:
"Fairground" by Simply Red
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Famous people born on the 5th of October: |
1713 - Denis Diderot, French philosopher and encylopedist (d. 1784)
1829 - Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States (d.1886)
1864 - Louis Lumière, French film pioneer (d. 1948)
1907 - Mrs. Miller, American singer (d. 1997)
1929 - Richard F. Gordon, Jr., American astronaut
1930 - Pavel Popovich, Soviet cosmonaut
1936 - Václav Havel, playwright and President of the Czech Republic
1942 - Richard Street, American r&b singer (The Temptations)
1951 - Bob Geldof, Irish singer & songwriter (The Boomtown Rats)
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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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