December 9th, 1997

December 9th, 1997...

Today is Tuesday !

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

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Kenny and Bobbi McCaughey

(TIME Cover: December the 1st, 1997)

Famous people born on the 9th of December:

1447 - Chenghua, Emperor of China (d. 1487)
1571 - Metius (Adriaan Adriaanszoon), Dutch mathematician and astronomer (d. 1635)
1868 - Fritz Haber, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1934)
1901 - Jean Mermoz, French pilot (d. 1936)
1906 - Grace Murray Hopper, American computer pioneer (d. 1992)
1916 - Kirk Douglas, American actor
1927 - Pierre Henry, French composer
1929 - John Cassavetes, American actor and director (d. 1989)
1953 - John Malkovich, American actor
1972 - Fabrice Santoro, Tahitian-born French tennis player
1991 - Prince Joachim, Archduke of Austria-Este, Belgian Prince

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

Tori Spelling / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 776/777, December 4, 1997

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