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December 1st, 1997...

Today is Monday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Something About the Way You Look Tonight /Candle in the Wind 1997"
by Elton John

In the UK:
"Perfect Day"
by Various Artists
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Kenny and Bobbi McCaughey

(TIME Cover: December the 1st, 1997)

 Famous people born on the 1st of December:

1081 - Louis VI of France (d. 1137)
1521 - Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord (d. 1573)
1761 - Marie Tussaud, creator of wax sculptures (Madame Tussauds) (d. 1850)
1923 - Stansfield Turner, American admiral and Central Intelligence Agency director
1923 - Morris, Belgian cartoonist (Lucky Luke) (d. 2001)
1935 - Woody Allen, American film director, actor, and comedian
1944 - John Densmore, American drummer (The Doors)
1944 - Pierre Arditi, French film and stage actor
1945 - Bette Midler, American actress
1947 - Alain Bashung, French singer
1949 - Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord (d. 1993)
2001 - Aiko, Princess Toshi of Japan

 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



Fleetwood Mac / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 772, October 30, 1997

 

 
 
 
     

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