October 24th, 1999

October 24th, 1999...

Today is Sunday !

Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "Smooth" by Santana featuring Rob Thomas In the UK: "Genie In The Bottle" by Christina Aguilera

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Steve Jobs

(TIME Cover: October the 18th, 1999)

Famous people born on the 24th of October:

51 - Domitian, Roman Emperor (d. 96)
1503 - Isabella of Portugal, queen of Spain and empress of Germany, wife of Charles I of Spain
1901 - Gilda Gray, Polish-born American actress and dancer (d. 1959)
1915 - Bob Kane, American cartoonist (d. 1998)
1930 - Sultan Ahmad Shah, King of Malaysia
1932 - Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1936 - Bill Wyman, English musician (The Rolling Stones)
1940 - Martin Campbell, New Zealand film director
1980 - Monica, American singer

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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