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December 19th, 1996...

Today is Thursday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Un-Break My Heart"
by Toni Braxton

In the UK:
"A Different Beat"
by Boyzone
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: O.J. Simpson

(TIME Cover: December the 2nd, 1996)

 Famous people born on the 19th of December:

1554 - Philip William, Prince of Orange (d. 1618)
1683 - Philip V of Spain (d. 1746)
1714 - John Winthrop, American astronomer (d. 1779)
1915 - Édith Piaf, French singer and actress (d. 1963)
1941 - Maurice White, American singer and songwriter (Earth, Wind & Fire)
1958 - Limahl, British singer (Kajagoogoo)
1972 - Alyssa Milano, American actress

 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



Dennis Rodman / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 749, December 12, 1996

 

 
 
 
     

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