| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Wannabe" by Spice Girls
In the UK:
"Don't Speak" by No Doubt
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Deng Xiaoping
(TIME Cover: March the 3rd, 1997)
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Famous people born on the 4th of March: |
1188 - Blanche of Castile, wife of Louis VIII (d. 1252)
1678 - Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer (d. 1741)
1792 - Samuel Slocum, American inventor (d. 1861)
1859 - Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist (d. 1905)
1877 - Garrett Morgan, American inventor (d. 1963)
1914 - Ward Kimball, American cartoonist (d. 2002)
1951 - Chris Rea, British singer
1952 - Umberto Tozzi, Italian singer
1962 - Lolo Ferrari, French actress (d. 2000)
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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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