Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"No Diggity" by BLACKstreet featuring Dr. Dre
In the UK:
"Breathe" by The Prodigy
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Amber Valetta
(TIME Cover: November the 25th, 1996)
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Famous people born on the 1st of December: |
1081 - Louis VI of France (d. 1137)
1521 - Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord (d. 1573)
1761 - Marie Tussaud, creator of wax sculptures (Madame Tussauds) (d. 1850)
1923 - Stansfield Turner, American admiral and Central Intelligence Agency director
1923 - Morris, Belgian cartoonist (Lucky Luke) (d. 2001)
1935 - Woody Allen, American film director, actor, and comedian
1944 - John Densmore, American drummer (The Doors)
1944 - Pierre Arditi, French film and stage actor
1945 - Bette Midler, American actress
1947 - Alain Bashung, French singer
1949 - Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord (d. 1993)
2001 - Aiko, Princess Toshi of Japan
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1996 |
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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
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Average price of a dozen eggs in 1996 (USA) |
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$1.31 |
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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)
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Designed in 1996 |
The Cappellini knotted chair
by Marcel Wanders |
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