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July 26th, 1996...

Today is Friday !

 
 
 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 26th of July:

1678 - Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1711)
1894 - Aldous Huxley, English-born author (d. 1963)
1908 - Salvador Allende, President of Chile (d. 1973)
1922 - Blake Edwards, American film director
1928 - Stanley Kubrick, American film director (d. 1999)
1943 - Mick Jagger, English musician (The Rolling Stones)
1949 - Roger Taylor, English musician (Queen)
1959 - Kevin Spacey, American actor

 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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