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July 22nd, 1996...

Today is Monday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"How Do U Want It / California Love"
by 2Pac featuring K-Ci and JoJo / featuring Dr. Dre and Roger Troutman

In the UK:
"Forever Love"
by Gary Barlow
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Prince William

(TIME Cover: July the 22nd, 1996)

 Famous people born on the 22nd of July:

1478 - King Philip I of Castile (d. 1506)
1519 - Pope Innocent IX (d. 1591)
1887 - Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1975)
1893 - James Whale, English film director (d. 1957)
1898 - Alexander Calder, American artist (d. 1976)
1944 - Estelle Bennett, American singer (Ronettes)
1944 - Rick Davies, British musician (Supertramp)
1947 - Don Henley, American drummer, singer, and songwriter (Eagles)
2002 - Prince Felix of Denmark, Prince of Denmark

 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



Jenny McCarthy / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 738/739, July 11, 1996

 

 
 
 
     

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