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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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Low-Carb Diets
(TIME Cover: November the 1st, 1999)
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Famous people born on the 4th of November: |
1448 - King Alphonso II of Naples (d. 1495)
1470 - King Edward V of England, one of the two princes in the Tower
1901 - Princess Bang-ja of Korea (d. 1989)
1923 - Freddy Heineken, Dutch businessman (d. 2002)
1944 - Scherrie Payne, American singer (The Supremes)
1946 - Laura Bush, First Lady of the United States
1956 - James Honeyman-Scott, English guitarist (The Pretenders) (d. 1982)
1969 - Sean Jean 'Diddy' Combs, American rapper
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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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