Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"No Scrubs" by TLC
In the UK:
"Perfect Moment" by Martine McCutcheon
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Genealogy
(TIME Cover: April the 19th, 1999)
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Famous people born on the 28th of April: |
1442 - King Edward IV of England (d. 1483)
1758 - James Monroe, 5th President of the United States (d. 1831)
1916 - Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian automobile manufacturer (d. 1993)
1937 - Saddam Hussein, former leader of Iraq
1953 - Kim Gordon, American musician (Sonic Youth)
1968 - Daisy Berkowitz, American musician (Marilyn Manson)
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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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