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:
"Too Much" by Spice Girls
|
Famous people born on the 27th of December: |
1571 - Johannes Kepler, German astronomer (d. 1630)
1654 - Jacob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1705)
1717 - Pope Pius VI (d. 1799)
1773 - George Cayley, English scientist, inventor, and politician (d. 1857)
1822 - Louis Pasteur, French scientist (d. 1895)
1943 - Pete Quaife, British musician (Kinks)
1948 - Gérard Depardieu, French actor
1952 - David Knopfler, British musician (Dire Straits)
|
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 |
|