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January 10th, 1998...

Today is Saturday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Something About the Way You Look Tonight /Candle In The Wind 1997"
by Elton John

In the UK:
"Perfect Day"
by Various Artists
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Kenny and Bobbi McCaughey

(TIME Cover: December the 1st, 1997)

 Famous people born on the 10th of January:

1480 - Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands (d. 1530)
1836 - Charles Ingalls, father of Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1902)
1865 - Mary Ingalls, elder sister of Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1928)
1869 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk (d. 1916)
1883 - Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi, Russian writer (d. 1945)
1913 - Gustáv Husák, President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1991)
1916 - Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2004)
1930 - Roy Edward Disney, American film executive
1944 - Frank Sinatra, Jr., American singer
1945 - Rod Stewart, English singer
1953 - Pat Benatar, American singer

 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1998


John A. Pople
1925-2004

for his development of computational methods in quantum chemistry

United Kingdom
Northwestern University - Evanston, IL, USA



Photo: nobelprize.org


 Average price of a dozen eggs in 1998 (USA)



$1.09 
     
Oscar of the best picture in 1998

Shakespeare in Love
directed by John Madden
with Gwyneth Paltrow (Viola De Lesseps), Gwyneth Paltrow (Viola De Lesseps) and Judi Dench (Queen Elizabeth I)

Designed in 1998

The Komed chair
by Marc Newson

Rolling Stone Magazine cover



Cast of Saturday Night Live / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 774, December 11, 1997

 

 
 
 
     

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