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March 2nd, 1999...

Today is Tuesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Angel of Mine"
by Monica

In the UK:
"Baby One More Time"
by Britney Spears
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Hillary Rodham Clinton

(TIME Cover: March the 1st, 1999)

 Famous people born on the 2nd of March:

1316 - Robert II of Scotland, (d. 1390)
1459 - Pope Adrian VI (d. 1523)
1810 - Pope Leo XIII, (d. 1903)
1876 - Pope Pius XII, (d. 1958)
1900 - Kurt Weill, German composer (d. 1950)
1931 - Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the Soviet Union
1937 - Abdelaziz Bouteflika, President of Algeria
1942 - John Irving, American author
1942 - Lou Reed, American singer and guitarist
1956 - Mark Evans, Australian bassist (AC/DC)
1962 - Jon Bon Jovi, American singer, songwriter, and actor

 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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