Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Livin' La Vida Loca" by Ricky Martin
In the UK:
"Swear It Again" by Westlife
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Columbine Murders
(TIME Cover: May the 3rd, 1999)
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Famous people born on the 8th of May: |
1828 - Jean Henri Dunant, Founder of the Red Cross; Nobel laureate (d. 1910)
1884 - Harry S. Truman, President of the United States (d. 1972)
1906 - Roberto Rossellini, Italian director (d. 1977)
1914 - Romain Gary, Polish writer (d. 1980)
1917 - Papa John Creach, American musician (Jefferson Airplane) (d. 1994)
1945 - Keith Jarrett, American musician
1951 - Chris Frantz, American musician (Talking Heads)
1953 - Alex Van Halen, Dutch drumme
1964 - Melissa Gilbert, American actress (Laura Ingalls in The Little House in the Country)
1975 - Enrique Iglesias, Spanish singer
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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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