October 15th, 1999

October 15th, 1999...

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Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "Heartbreaker" by Mariah Carey featuring Jay-Z In the UK: "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" by Eiffel 65

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Laser Eye Surgery

(TIME Cover: October the 11th, 1999)

Famous people born on the 15th of October:

70 BC - Virgil, Roman poet (d. 19 BC)
1542 - Akbar, Jellaladin Mahommed, Mughal Emperor (died 160
1844 - Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (d. 1900)
1893 - King Carol II of Romania (d. 1953)
1915 - Yitzhak Shamir, Israeli politician
1926 - Michel Foucault, French philosopher (d. 1984)
1946 - Richard Carpenter, American musician (Carpenters)
1959 - Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York
1964 - Roberto Vittori, Italian astronaut
1968 - Didier Deschamps, French football player
2005 - Prince Christian of Denmark, Prince of Denmark

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1999

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

Average price of a dozen eggs in 1999 (USA)
	$1.08

Oscar of the best picture in 1999

American Beauty
directed by Sam Mendes
with Kevin Spacey (Lester Burnham) and Annette Bening (Carolyn Burnham)

Designed in 1999

The Toy chair
by Philippe Starck

Rolling Stone Magazine cover

Trent Reznor / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 823, October 14, 1999

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