| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Un-Break My Heart" by Toni Braxton
In the UK:
"2 Become 1" by Spice Girls
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: O.J. Simpson
(TIME Cover: December the 2nd, 1996)
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Famous people born on the 29th of December: |
1709 - Empress Elizabeth of Russia (d. 1762)
1721 - Madame de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV of France (d. 1764)
1808 - Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States (d. 1875)
1914 - Albert Tucker, Australian artist (d. 1999)
1931 - Prince Gu of Korea (d. 2005)
1946 - Marianne Faithfull, British singer
1954 - Prince Takamado of Japan (d. 2002)
1972 - Evan Seinfeld, American musician (Biohazard) and actor
1994 - Princess Kako of Akishino 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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