| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Waterfalls" by TLC
In the UK:
"Never Forget" by Take That
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Cyber War
(TIME Cover: August the 21st, 1995)
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Famous people born on the 24th of August: |
1198 - King Alexander II of Scotland (d. 1249)
1358 - King John I of Castile (d. 1390)
1772 - King William I of the Netherlands (d. 1840)
1787 - James Weddell, Antarctica explorer (d. 1834)
1865 - King Ferdinand I of Romania (d. 1927)
1899 - Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer (d. 1986)
1929 - Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader (d. 2004)
1947 - Paulo Coelho, Brazilian author
1948 - Jean-Michel Jarre, French musician
1951 - Oscar Hijuelos, Pulitzer Prize winning author
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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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