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September 29th, 1998...

Today is Tuesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"I Don't Want to Miss a Thing"
by Aerosmith

In the UK:
"I Want You Back"
by Melanie B featuring Missy Elliott
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: White House Scandal

(TIME Cover: September the 28th, 1998)

 Famous people born on the 29th of September:

106 BC - Pompey the Great, consul of Rome (d. 48 BC)
1547 - Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish author (d. 1616)
1703 - François Boucher, French painter (d. 1770)
1864 - Alexandra Kitchin, British model for Lewis Carroll (d. 1925)
1901 - Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1954)
1912 - Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director
1932 - Robert Benton, American screenwriter and director
1935 - Jerry Lee Lewis, American musician
1936 - Silvio Berlusconi, former Prime Minister of Italy
1943 - Lech Walesa, President of Poland, Nobel Peace Prize winner
1951 - Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile

 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



Katie Holmes / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 795, September 17, 1998

 

 
 
 
     

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