Sports

NBA: Detriot Pistons vs. LA Lakers Series: 4-0
NCAA Football:Miami-Fl Record: 11-1-0:
Heisman Trophy: Andre Ware,houston, QB points: 1,073
Stanley Cup:Calgary Flames vs.Montreal Canadiens Series: 4-2
Super Bowl XXIV:San Francisco 49ers vs. Cincinnati Bengals Score: 20-16

Popular Music

1."My Prerogative" ... Bobby Brown
2."Two Hearts" ... Phil Collins
3."When I'm With You" ... Sheriff
4."Lost in Your Eyes" ... Debbie Gibson
5."The Living Years" .. Mike and the Mechanics
6."Eternal Flame" ... Bangles
7."The Look" ... Roxette
8."She Drives Me Crazy" ... Fine Young Cannibals
9."Like a Prayer" ... Madonna
10."I'll Be There for You" ... Bon Jovi

Popular Movies

1. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
2. Coming To America
3. Good Morning Vietnam
4. Crocodile Dundee II
5. Big
6. Three Men and a Baby
7. Die Hard
8. Cocktail
9. Moonstruck
10. Beetlejuice

 

Most Popular Books

1. The Cosby Show (NBC)
2. Roseanne (ABC)
3. Cheers (NBC)
4. A Different World (NBC)
5. America's Funniest Home Videos (ABC)
6. The Golden Girls (NBC)
7. 60 Minutes (CBS)
8. The Wonder Years (ABC)
9. Empty Nest (NBC)
10. Monday Night Football (ABC)

Nobel Prizes

Chemistry
The prize was awarded jointly to: ALTMAN, SIDNEY, U.S.A. and Canada, Yale University, New Haven, CT, b. 1939; and CECH, THOMAS R., U.S.A., University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, b. 1947: "for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA"

Literature
CELA, CAMILO JOSE, Spain, b. 1916: "for a rich and intensive prose, which with restrained compassion forms a challenging vision of man's vulnerability"

Peace
THE 14TH DALAI LAMA (TENZIN GYATSO), Tibet, b. 1935: Religious and political leader of the Tibetan people.

Physiology or Medicine
The prize was awarded jointly to: BISHOP, J. MICHAEL, U.S.A., University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA, b. 1936; and VARMUS, HAROLD E., U.S.A., University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA, b. 1939: "for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes"

Physics
The prize was awarded by one half to: RAMSEY, NORMAN F., U.S.A., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, b. 1915: "for the invention of the separated oscillatory fields method and its use in the hydrogen maser and other atomic clocks" and the other half jointly to: DEHMELT, HANS G., U.S.A., University of Washington, Seattle, WA, b. 1922 (in Gsrlitz, Germany); and PAUL, WOLFGANG, Federal Republic of Germany, University of Bonn, Bonn, b. 1913, d. 1993: "for the development of the ion trap technique"

Best Picture: "Driving Miss Daisy"
Best Director: Oliver Stone ... "Born on the Fourth of July"
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis ... "My Left Foot"
Best Actress: Jessica Tandy ... "Driving Miss Daisy"