Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"The Boy Is Mine" by Brandy and Monica
In the UK:
"Three Lions 98" by Baddiel & Skinner & The Lightning Seeds
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Famous people born on the 10th of July: |
1419 - Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (d. 1471)
1452 - King James III of Scotland (d. 1488)
1830 - Camille Pissarro, French painter (d. 1903)
1832 - Alvan Graham Clark, American telescope maker and astronomer (d. 1897)
1856 - Nikola Tesla, Croatian Serb inventor (d. 1943)
1871 - Marcel Proust, French writer (d. 1922)
1942 - Pyotr Klimuk, cosmonaut
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1998 |
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John A. Pople
1925-2004
for his development of computational methods in quantum chemistry
United Kingdom
Northwestern University - Evanston, IL, USA
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Average price of a dozen eggs in 1998 (USA) |
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$1.09 |
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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)
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Designed in 1998 |
The Komed chair
by Marc Newson |
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