kakorama: a ride into the past
 

 

September 21st, 1997...

Today is Sunday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Honey"
by Mariah Carey

In the UK:
"Candle In The Wind '97 / Something About The Way You Look Tonight"
by Elton John
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Diana, Princess of Wales

(TIME Cover: September the 8th, 1997)

 Famous people born on the 21st of September:

1328 - Hongwu Emperor of China (d. 1398)
1415 - Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1493)
1428 - Jingtai Emperor of China (d. 1457)
1840 - Murad V, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1904)
1842 - Abd-ul-Hamid II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1918)
1866 - H. G. Wells, English writer (d. 1946)
1931 - Larry Hagman, American actor
1934 - Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer and songwriter
1941 - R. James Woolsey, Jr., CIA director
1947 - Stephen King, American author
1947 - Don Felder, American guitarist (Eagles)
1951 - Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen rebel leader (d. 2005)
1957 - Ethan Coen, American film director
1972 - Liam Gallagher, British singer (Oasis)

 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



Wu-Tang Clan & Rage Against the Machine / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 768, September 4, 1997

 

 
 
 
     

Jump to another date:

    

and click to see what happened:

play crystal ball gazing with the-crystal-ball.com
or translate text into nightingale language on nightingale-song.com
or send singing birthday messages with the kakomessenger
or compose your ringtone for free with the
kakophone machine
 

© Kakophone 2006
Terms of use - Legal information - Webmaster