Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"One Sweet Day" by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men
In the UK:
"Spaceman" by Babylon Zoo
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Steve Forbes
(TIME Cover: January the 29th, 1996)
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Famous people born on the 3rd of February: |
1809 - Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (d. 1847)
1898 - Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect (d. 1976)
1904 - Pretty Boy Floyd, American gangster (d. 1934)
1909 - Simone Weil, French philosopher (d. 1943)
1947 - Paul Auster, American novelist
1959 - Laurence Tolhurst, British musician (The Cure)
1959 - Yasuharu Konishi, Japanese musician, composer and DJ (Pizzicato Five)
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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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