Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Un-Break My Heart" by Toni Braxton
In the UK:
"Beetlebum" by Blur
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Famous people born on the 4th of February: |
1688 - Pierre de Marivaux, French writer (d. 1763)
1881 - Fernand Léger, French painter (d. 1955)
1902 - Charles Lindbergh, American pilot (d. 1974)
1948 - Alice Cooper, American musician
1953 - Kitaro, Japanese composer
1975 - Natalie Imbruglia, Australian musician and actress
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1997 |
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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
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Average price of a dozen eggs in 1997 (USA) |
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$1.17 |
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Oscar of the best picture in 1997 |
Titanic
directed by James Cameron
with Kate Winslet (Rose DeWitt Bukater) and Gloria Stuart (Old Rose)
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Designed in 1997 |
The Vega chair
by Jasper Morrison |
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