Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Honey" by Mariah Carey
In the UK:
"The Drugs Don't Work" by The Verve
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Famous people born on the 14th of September: |
1486 - Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, German alchemist (d. 1535)
1737 - Michael Haydn, Austrian composer (d. 1806)
1849 - Ivan Pavlov, Russian scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1936)
1898 - Hal B. Wallis, American film producer (d. 1986)
1920 - Alberto Calderón, Argentine mathematician (d. 1998)
1959 - Morten Harket, Norwegian singer (a-ha)
1973 - Nas, American rapper
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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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