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December 25th, 1998...

Today is Friday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"I'm Your Angel"
by R. Kelly and Céline Dion

In the UK:
"To You I Belong"
by B*witched
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Ritalin

(TIME Cover: November the 30th, 1998)

 Famous people born on the 25th of December:

1250 - John IV Lascaris, Eastern Roman Emperor (d. circa 1305)
1642 (O.S.) - Sir Isaac Newton, English physicist and mathematician (d. 1727)
1763 - Claude Chappe, French telecommunications pioneer (d. 1805)
1876 - Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan (d. 1948)
1878 - Louis Chevrolet, Swiss-born race car driver (d. 1941)
1887 - Conrad Nicholson Hilton, American hotelier (d. 1979)
1899 - Humphrey Bogart, American actor (d. 1957)
1918 - Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt, Nobel laureate (d. 1981)
1936 - Princess Alexandra of Kent
1954 - Annie Lennox, Scottish singer
1959 - Michael P. Anderson, astronaut (d. 2003)
1961 - Ingrid Betancourt, Colombian senator
1971 - Dido, English 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



Will Smith / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 801, December 10, 1998

 

 
 
 
     

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