| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"You're Makin' Me High/Let It Flow" by Toni Braxton
In the UK:
"Wannabe" by Spice Girls
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: TWA Flight 800
(TIME Cover: July the 29th, 1996)
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Famous people born on the 31st of July: |
1143 - Emperor Nijo of Japan (d. 1165)
1527 - Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1576)
1803 - John Ericsson, Swedish inventor and engineer (d. 1889)
1901 - Jean Dubuffet, French painter and sculptor (d. 1985)
1912 - Milton Friedman, American economist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 2006)
1919 - Primo Levi, Italian author and chemist (d. 1987)
1921 - Peter Benenson, founder of Amnesty International (d. 2005)
1944 - Geraldine Chaplin, American actress
1957 - Daniel Ash, Gothic Rock artist in such bands as Bauhaus, Tones on Tail and Love and Rockets
1964 - Jim Corr, Irish singer and musician (The Corrs)
1965 - J.K. Rowling, English autor (Harry Potter)
1978 - Will Champion, English drummer (Coldplay)
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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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