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June 1st, 1997...

Today is Sunday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"MMMBop"
by Hanson

In the UK:
"I Wanna Be The Only One"
by Eternal featuring Bebe Winans
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Steven Speilberg

(TIME Cover: May the 19th, 1997)

 Famous people born on the 1st of June:

1771 - Ernest Augustus I of Hanover (d. 1851)
1563 - Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, English statesman and spymaster (d. 1612)
1815 - King Otto of Greece (d. 1862)
1857 - Le Pétomane (Joseph Pujol), French professional farter (d. 1945)
1926 - Marilyn Monroe, American actress (d. 1962)
1928 - Georgi Dobrovolski, cosmonaut
1940 - René Auberjonois, American actor
1959 - Alan Wilder, British musician (Depeche Mode and Recoil)
1960 - Simon Gallup, English guitarist, (The Cure)
1963 - Mike Joyce, English drummer (The Smiths)
1970 - Karen Mulder, Dutch model

 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



U2 / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 761, May 29, 1997

 

 
 
 
     

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