Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"I'll Be Missing You" by Puff Daddy and Faith Evans featuring 112
In the UK:
"Men In Black" by Will Smith
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Sharks
(TIME Cover: August the 11th, 1997)
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Famous people born on the 17th of August: |
1629 - King John III of Poland
1786 - Davy Crockett, American frontiersman and soldier (d. 1836)
1844 - Emperor Menelek II of Ethiopia (d. 1913)
1882 - Samuel Goldwyn, Hollywood producer (d. 1974)
1926 - Jiang Zemin, 3rd President of the People's Republic of China
1933 - Gene Kranz, NASA flight director
1939 - Luther Allison, American blues guitarist
1943 - Robert De Niro, American actor
1952 - Nelson Piquet, Brazilian formula one driver
1952 - Guillermo Vilas, Argentinian tennis player
1956 - Gail Berman, president of Paramount Pictures
1962 - Gilby Clarke, American musician Guns N' Roses
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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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