April 1st, 1999 - kakorama

April 1st, 1999...

Today is Thursday !

Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "Believe" by Cher In the UK: "Blame It On The Weatherman" by *Bwitched**

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: TIME 100: Scientists and Thinkers

(TIME Cover: March the 29th, 1999)

Famous people born on the 1st of April:

1220 - Emperor Go-Saga of Japan (d. 1272)
1732 - Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (d. 1809)
1815 - Otto von Bismarck, 1st Chancellor of the German Empire (d. 1898)
1868 - Edmond Rostand, French dramatist (d. 1918)
1873 (N.S.) - Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer, pianist, and conductor (d. 1943)
1929 - Milan Kundera, Czech writer
1933 - Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1948 - Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican musician
1983 - Franck Ribery, French footballer

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

Mark McGrath / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 808, March 18, 1999

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