| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Smooth" by Santana featuring Rob Thomas
In the UK:
"Flying Without Wings" by Westlife
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Famous people born on the 31st of October: |
1345 - King Fernando I of Portugal (d. 1383)
1391 - King Duarte of Portugal (d. 1438)
1424 - King Wladislaus III of Poland (d. 1444)
1632 - (baptism) Johannes Vermeer, Flemish painter (d. 1675)
1705 - Pope Clement XIV (d. 1774)
1860 - Juliette Low, American founder of the Girl Scouts (d. 1927)
1887 - Chiang Kai-shek, Nationalist Chinese leader, former Republic of China president (d. 1975)
1922 - King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia
1930 - Michael Collins, astronaut
1936 - Michael Landon, American actor (d. 1991)
1952 - Bernard Edwards, American bass player (CHIC) (d. 1996)
1961 - Larry Mullen, Irish drummer (U2)
1966 - Adam Horovitz, American singer (Beastie Boys)
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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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