Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Un-Break My Heart" by Toni Braxton
In the UK:
"Professional Widow" by Tori Amos
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Bill Gates
(TIME Cover: January the 13th, 1997)
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Famous people born on the 19th of January: |
399 - Pulcheria, Byzantine empress (d. 453)
1544 - King Francis II of France (d. 1560)
1809 - Edgar Allan Poe, American writer and poet (d. 1849)
1839 - Paul Cézanne, French painter (d. 1906)
1921 - Patricia Highsmith, American author (d. 1995)
1923 - Markus Wolf, German spy
1943 - Janis Joplin, American singer (d. 1970)
1943 - Princess Margriet of the Netherlands
1947 - Rod Evans, founding member of Deep Purple
1949 - Robert Palmer, English singer and guitarist (d. 2003)
1966 - Stefan Edberg, Swedish tennis player
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1997 |
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Stanley B. Prusiner
1942-
for his discovery of Prions - a new biological principle of infection
USA
University of California School of Medicine - San Francisco, CA, USA
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Average price of a dozen eggs in 1997 (USA) |
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$1.17 |
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Oscar of the best picture in 1997 |
Titanic
directed by James Cameron
with Kate Winslet (Rose DeWitt Bukater) and Gloria Stuart (Old Rose)
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Designed in 1997 |
The Vega chair
by Jasper Morrison |
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