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November 10th, 1996...

Today is Sunday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"No Diggity"
by BLACKstreet featuring Dr. Dre

In the UK:
"What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted Saturday Night At The Movies"
by Robson & Jerome
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Bob Dole, Bill Clinton

(TIME Cover: November the 4th, 1996)

 Famous people born on the 10th of November:

1483 - Martin Luther, German protestant reformer (d. 1546)
1683 - George II of Great Britain (d. 1760)
1888 - Andrei Tupolev, Russian aircraft designer (d. 1972)
1919 - Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov, Russian inventor
1925 - Richard Burton, Welsh actor (d. 1984)
1928 - Ennio Morricone, Italian composer
1933 - Ronald Evans, American astronaut (d. 1990)
1954 - Mario Cipollina, American bass player (Huey Lewis & the News)

 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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