Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)" by Los Del Rio
In the UK:
"Wannabe" by Spice Girls
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Christopher Reeve
(TIME Cover: August the 26th, 1996)
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Famous people born on the 30th of August: |
1377 - Shah Rukh, ruler of Persia and Transoxonia (d. 1447)
1748 - Jacques-Louis David, French painter (d. 1825)
1871 - Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand-born Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (d. 1937)
1937 - Bruce McLaren, New Zealand car racer, designer, and manufacturer (d. 1970)
1962 - Alexander Litvinenko, British citizen, ex-KGB colonel and ex-FSB lieutenant-colonel (d.2006)
1972 - Cameron Diaz, American actress
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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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