yesterday was a ...

Tuesday 04 June 1996 23:02 BST
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Good Day for Tattoos, as the world's first museum of tattooing opened in Amsterdam. Centrally located between the cannabis museum and the sex museum, it features an unrivalled display of examples of tattooing including a piece of human skin from 1850 with a tattoo of the crucifixion.

Bad Day for Miss Universe, as her boyfriend learned that she had told reporters at the event that she was unattached. "Maybe it was a distortion," said Venezuelan Juan Vicente Larrovere, adding that when Alicia Machado returns home with her Miss Universe title, "we will sort out this misunderstanding."

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