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February 8th, 1997...

Today is Saturday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Un-Break My Heart"
by Toni Braxton

In the UK:
"Ain't Nobody"
by L.L. Cool J
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Bill Cosby and Ennis Cosby

(TIME Cover: January the 27th, 1997)

 Famous people born on the 8th of February:

412 - Proclus, Greek philosopher (d. 487)
1191 - Yaroslav II of Russia (d. 1246)
1291 - King Afonso IV of Portugal (d. 1357)
1700 - Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-born mathematician (d. 1782)
1720 - Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan (d. 1750)
1828 - Jules Verne, French author (d. 1905)
1834 - Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist (d. 1907)
1931 - James Dean, American actor (d. 1955)
1974 - Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, French disc jockey (Daft Punk)

 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



Marilyn Manson / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 752, January 23, 1997

 

 
 
 
     

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