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February 24th, 1999...

Today is Wednesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Angel of Mine"
by Monica

In the UK:
"Fly Away"
by Lenny Kravitz
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Clinton/Lewinsky Scandal, The

(TIME Cover: February the 22nd, 1999)

 Famous people born on the 24th of February:

1103 - Emperor Toba of Japan (d. 1156)
1500 - Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1558)
1786 - Wilhelm Grimm, German philologist and folklorist (d. 1859)
1955 - Steve Jobs, American computer pioneer
1955 - Alain Prost, French race car driver
1958 - Plastic Bertrand, Belgian 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



Lauryn Hill / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 806, February 18, 1999

 

 
 
 
     

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