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May 25th, 1996...

Today is Saturday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Tha Crossroads"
by Bone Thugs-N-Harmony

In the UK:
"Ooh Aah... Just A Little Bit"
by Gina G
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Twisters

(TIME Cover: May the 20th, 1996)

 Famous people born on the 25th of May:

1048 - Emperor Shenzong of China (d. 1085)
1334 - Emperor Suko of Japan (d. 1398)
1912 - Princess Dukhye of Korea (d. 1989)
1948 - Klaus Meine, German musician (Scorpions)
1960 - Guy Fletcher, keyboardist (Dire Straits)
1984 - Unnur Birna Vilhjálmsdóttir, Miss Iceland, crowned Miss World in 2005
1993 - The Dilley sextuplets, first surviving set of sextuplets in the United States

 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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