Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"I'm Your Angel" by R. Kelly and Céline Dion
In the UK:
"Heartbeat / Tragedy" by Steps
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Ritalin
(TIME Cover: November the 30th, 1998)
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Famous people born on the 9th of January: |
1554 - Pope Gregory XV (d. 1623)
1624 - Empress Meisho of Japan (d. 1696)
1900 - Maria of Romania, Queen Consort of Yugoslavia (d. 1961)
1908 - Simone de Beauvoir, French author (d. 1986)
1913 - Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States (d. 1994)
1941 - Joan Baez, American singer and activist
1944 - Jimmy Page, English guitarist
1958 - Mehmet Ali Agca, Turkish attempted assassin of Pope John Paul II
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1999 |
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Günter Blobel
1936-
for the discovery that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in the cell
USA
Rockefeller University - New York, NY, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Average price of a dozen eggs in 1999 (USA) |
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$1.08 |
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Oscar of the best picture in 1999 |
American Beauty
directed by Sam Mendes
with Kevin Spacey (Lester Burnham) and Annette Bening (Carolyn Burnham)
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Designed in 1999 |
The Toy chair
by Philippe Starck |
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