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November 14th, 1996...

Today is Thursday !

 
 
 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: Suspect Political Donations

(TIME Cover: November the 11th, 1996)

 Famous people born on the 14th of November:

1650 - King William III of England (d. 1702)
1719 - Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer (d. 1787)
1765 - Robert Fulton, American inventor (d. 1815)
1840 - Claude Monet, French painter (d. 1926)
1933 - Fred Haise, American astronaut
1935 - King Hussein of Jordan (d. 1999)
1948 - Charles, Prince of Wales
1954 - Condoleezza Rice, United States Secretary of State

 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



Sheryl Crow / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 747, November 14, 1996

 

 
 
 
     

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