October 24th, 1997

October 24th, 1997...

Today is Friday !

Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "Candle in the Wind 1997 /Something About the Way You Look Tonight" by Elton John In the UK: "Candle In The Wind '97 / Something About The Way You Look Tonight" by Elton John

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Hillary Rodham Clinton

(TIME Cover: October the 20th, 1997)

Famous people born on the 24th of October:

51 - Domitian, Roman Emperor (d. 96)
1503 - Isabella of Portugal, queen of Spain and empress of Germany, wife of Charles I of Spain
1901 - Gilda Gray, Polish-born American actress and dancer (d. 1959)
1915 - Bob Kane, American cartoonist (d. 1998)
1930 - Sultan Ahmad Shah, King of Malaysia
1932 - Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1936 - Bill Wyman, English musician (The Rolling Stones)
1940 - Martin Campbell, New Zealand film director
1980 - Monica, American singer

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1997

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

Average price of a dozen eggs in 1997 (USA)
	$1.17

Oscar of the best picture in 1997

Titanic
directed by James Cameron
with Kate Winslet (Rose DeWitt Bukater) and Gloria Stuart (Old Rose)

Designed in 1997

The Vega chair
by Jasper Morrison

Rolling Stone Magazine cover

Chris Rock / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 770, October 2, 1997

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