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June 8th, 1996...

Today is Saturday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Tha Crossroads"
by Bone Thugs-N-Harmony

In the UK:
"Killing Me Softly"
by Fugees
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Who Speaks for Kids?

(TIME Cover: June the 3rd, 1996)

 Famous people born on the 8th of June:

1671 - Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer (d. 1751)
1810 - Robert Schumann, German composer (d. 1856)
1903 - Marguerite Yourcenar, French author (d. 1987)
1940 - Nancy Sinatra, American singer
1960 - Mick Hucknall, English singer and songwriter (Simply Red)
1962 - Nick Rhodes, English musician (Duran Duran)
1976 - Lindsay Davenport, American tennis legend
1983 - Nadia Petrova, Russian tennis player

 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



David Letterman / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 735, May 30, 1996

 

 
 
 
     

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