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May 1st, 1997...

Today is Thursday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Can't Nobody Hold Me Down"
by Puff Daddy featuring Ma$e

In the UK:
"I Believe I Can Fly"
by R. Kelly
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Ellen DeGeneres

(TIME Cover: April the 14th, 1997)

 Famous people born on the 1st of May:

1218 - Rudolph I of Germany, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1291)
1804 - Aleksey Khomyakov, Russian poet (d. 1860)
1852 - Calamity Jane, American Wild West performer (d. 1903)
1917 - Danielle Darrieux, French singer and actress
1946 - Joanna Lumley, British actress
1946 - John Woo, Hong Kong director, producer, writer, and actor

 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



No Doubt / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 759, May 1, 1997

 

 
 
 
     

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