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March 18th, 1997...

Today is Tuesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Wannabe"
by Spice Girls

In the UK:
"Who Do You Think You Are / Mama"
by Spice Girls
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: College Tuition

(TIME Cover: March the 17th, 1997)

 Famous people born on the 18th of March:

1496 - Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England and queen consort of Louis XII of France (d. 1533)
1842 - Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (d. 1898)
1858 - Rudolf Diesel, German inventor (d. 1913)
1910 - Chiang Ching-kuo, President of the Republic of China (d. 1988)
1928 - Julia Mullock, Princess of Korea
1936 - Frederik Willem de Klerk, President of South Africa, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1959 - Luc Besson, French producer, writer, and director
1959 - Irene Cara, American actress and singer

 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



Trent Reznor & David Lynch / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 755, March 6, 1997

 

 
 
 
     

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