January 5th, 1998

January 5th, 1998...

Today is Monday !

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: "Too Much" by Spice Girls

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Kenny and Bobbi McCaughey

(TIME Cover: December the 1st, 1997)

Famous people born on the 5th of January:

1209 - Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1272)
1548 - Francisco Suarez, Spanish theologian (d. 1617)
1587 - Xu Xiake, Chinese geographer (d. 1641)
1592 - Shah Jahan, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1666)
1846 - Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1926)
1855 - King Camp Gillette, American inventor (d. 1932)
1876 - Konrad Adenauer, German statesman (d. 1967)
1931 - Alvin Ailey, American choreographer (d. 1989)
1932 - Umberto Eco, Italian writer
1940 - Yuri Ershov, Russian mathematician
1941 - Hayao Miyazaki, Japanese film maker
1946 - Diane Keaton, American actress
1969 - Marilyn Manson, 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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