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April 22nd, 1996...

Today is Monday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Because You Loved Me"
by Céline Dion

In the UK:
"Return Of The Mack"
by Mark Morrison
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Jessica Dubroff

(TIME Cover: April the 22nd, 1996)

 Famous people born on the 22nd of April:

1451 - Queen Isabella of Castile and Leon (d. 1504)
1610 - Pope Alexander VIII (d. 1691)
1724 - Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (d. 1804)
1766 - Madame de Staël, French author (d. 1817)
1870 (N.S.) - Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary (d. 1924)
1899 - Vladimir Nabokov, Russian writer (d. 1977)
1916 - Yehudi Menuhin, American-born violinist (d. 1999)
1937 - Jack Nicholson, American actor
1971 - Daisuke Enomoto, first Japanese space tourist

 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



Gavin Rossdale / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 732, April 18, 1996

 

 
 
 
     

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