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June 1st, 1999...

Today is Tuesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Livin' La Vida Loca"
by Ricky Martin

In the UK:
"Sweet Like Chocolate"
by Shanks & Bigfoot
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: How to Spot a Troubled Kid

(TIME Cover: May the 31st, 1999)

 Famous people born on the 1st of June:

1771 - Ernest Augustus I of Hanover (d. 1851)
1563 - Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, English statesman and spymaster (d. 1612)
1815 - King Otto of Greece (d. 1862)
1857 - Le Pétomane (Joseph Pujol), French professional farter (d. 1945)
1926 - Marilyn Monroe, American actress (d. 1962)
1928 - Georgi Dobrovolski, cosmonaut
1940 - René Auberjonois, American actor
1959 - Alan Wilder, British musician (Depeche Mode and Recoil)
1960 - Simon Gallup, English guitarist, (The Cure)
1963 - Mike Joyce, English drummer (The Smiths)
1970 - Karen Mulder, Dutch model

 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



Backstreet Boys / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 813, May 27, 1999

 

 
 
 
     

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