Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"If You Had My Love" by Jennifer Lopez
In the UK:
"Bring It All Back" by S Club 7
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: George W. Bush
(TIME Cover: June the 21st, 1999)
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Famous people born on the 25th of June: |
1852 - Antoni Gaudí, Catalan architect (d. 1926)
1858 - Georges Courteline, French dramatist (d. 1929)
1903 - George Orwell (pen name of Eric Arthur Blair), British writer (d. 1950)
1924 - Sidney Lumet, American actor
1928 - Peyo, Belgian illustrator (d. 1992)
1944 - Robert Charlebois, Canadian singer
1963 - George Michael, British 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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