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January 31st, 1998...

Today is Saturday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Together Again"
by Janet

In the UK:
"You Make Me Wanna"
by Usher
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Fidel Castro and Pope John Paul II

(TIME Cover: January the 26th, 1998)

 Famous people born on the 31st of January:

1338 - King Charles V of France (d. 1380)
1512 - King Henry of Portugal (d. 1580)
1543 - Tokugawa Ieyasu, Shogun of Japan (d. 1616)
1797 - Franz Schubert, Austrian composer (d. 1828)
1937 - Philip Glass, American composer
1938 - Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands
1961 - Lloyd Cole, British singer
1981 - Justin Timberlake, 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



Fiona Apple / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 778, January 22, 1998

 

 
 
 
     

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