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July 1st, 1998...

Today is Wednesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"The Boy Is Mine"
by Brandy and Monica

In the UK:
"Three Lions 98"
by Baddiel & Skinner & The Lightning Seeds
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Is Feminism Dead?

(TIME Cover: June the 29th, 1998)

 Famous people born on the 1st of July:

1481 - Christian II of Denmark, Sweden and Norway (d. 1559)
1506 - Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1526)
1534 - Frederick II of Denmark (d. 1588)
1646 - Gottfried Leibniz, German mathematician (d. 1716)
1804 - George Sand, French writer (d. 1876)
1906 - Estée Lauder, American entrepreneur (d. 2004)
1931 - Leslie Caron, French actress
1934 - Sydney Pollack, American film director
1945 - Deborah Harry, American musician, (Blondie)
1951 - Fred Schneider, American singer (The B-52's)
1961 - Diana, Princess of Wales, (d. 1997)
1961 - Carl Lewis, American athlete
1967 - Pamela Anderson, Canadian model and actress

 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



Johnny Depp / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 788, June 2, 1998

 

 
 
 
     

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