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May 17th, 1995...

Today is Wednesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"This Is How We Do It"
by Montell Jordan

In the UK:
"Dreamer"
by Livin' Joy
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Ralph Reed

(TIME Cover: May the 15th, 1995)

 Famous people born on the 17th of May:

1866 - Erik Satie, French composer (d. 1925)
1886 - Alfonso XIII of Spain (d. 1941)
1904 - Jean Gabin, French actor (d. 1976)
1959 - Paul Di'Anno, English singer (Iron Maiden)
1961 - Enya, Irish singer and songwriter
1971 - Princess Máxima of the Netherlands
1974 - Andrea Corr, Irish singer (The Corrs)
1982 - Tony Parker, French-American basketball player

 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



Tom Petty / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 707, May 4, 1995

 

 
 
 
     

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