Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Livin' La Vida Loca" by Ricky Martin
In the UK:
"You Needed Me" by Boyzone
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Ricky Martin
(TIME Cover: May the 24th, 1999)
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Famous people born on the 26th of May: |
1264 - Prince Koreyasu, Japanese shogun (d. 1326)
1478 - Pope Clement VII (d. 1534)
1566 - Mehmed III, Ottoman Emperor (d. 1603)
1878 - Isadora Duncan, American dancer (d. 1927)
1926 - Miles Davis, American Jazz musician
1964 - Lenny Kravitz, American guitarist and singer
1968 - Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark
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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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