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October 16th, 1996...

Today is Wednesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)"
by Los Del Rio

In the UK:
"Setting Sun"
by The Chemical Brothers
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Working Mom Lori Lucas

(TIME Cover: October the 14th, 1996)

 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 1996


Douglas D. Osheroff
1945-

with David M. Lee and Robert C. Richardson, for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3

USA
Stanford University - Stanford, CA, USA



Photo: nobelprize.org


 Average price of a dozen eggs in 1996 (USA)



$1.31
     
Oscar of the best picture in 1996

The English Patient
directed by Anthony Minghella
with Ralph Fiennes (Almasy), Kristin Scott Thomas (Katharine Clifton) and Juliette Binoche (Hana)

Designed in 1996

The Cappellini knotted chair
by Marcel Wanders

Rolling Stone Magazine cover



Brooke Shields / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 744, October 3, 1996

 

 
 
 
     

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