Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Take a Bow" by Madonna
In the UK:
"Back For Good" by Take That
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Shoko Asahara
(TIME Cover: April the 3rd, 1995)
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Famous people born on the 13th of April: |
1519 - Catherine de Medici, wife of Henry II of France (d. 1589)
1584 - Albert VI of Bavaria (d. 1666)
1743 - Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States (New style date) (d. 1826)
1771 - Richard Trevithick, English engineer and inventor of the first working railway steam locomotive (d. 1833)
1866 - Butch Cassidy, American outlaw (d. 1908)
1901 - Jacques Lacan, French psychoanalyst and semanticist (d. 1981)
1906 - Samuel Beckett, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)
1944 - Jack Casady, American musician (Jefferson Airplane)
1962 - Hillel Slovak, Israeli-born guitarist (Red Hot Chili Peppers) (d. 1988)
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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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