Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Tha Crossroads" by Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
In the UK:
"Killing Me Softly" by Fugees
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Bejamin Netanyahu
(TIME Cover: June the 10th, 1996)
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Famous people born on the 22nd of June: |
1906 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author and pilot (d. 2001)
1946 - Eliades Ochoa, Cuban guitarist, member of Buena Vista Social Club
1949 - Meryl Streep, American actress
1949 - Lindsay Wagner, American actress (Jaime Sommers)
1953 - Cyndi Lauper, American singer
1957 - Garry Gary Beers, Australian bassist from group INXS
1961 - Jimmy Sommerville, Scottish singer (Bronski Beat, Communards and solo)
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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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