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October 29th, 1997...

Today is Wednesday !

 
 
 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:
"Spice Up Your Life"
by Spice Girls
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: What Makes a Good School?

(TIME Cover: October the 27th, 1997)

 Famous people born on the 29th of October:

1017 - Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1056)
1917 - Eddie Constantine, American actor/singer (d. 1993)
1930 - Niki de Saint Phalle, French sculptor (d. 2002)
1955 - Roger O'Donnell, English musician (The Cure)
1971 - Winona Ryder, American actress

 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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