Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Livin' La Vida Loca" by Ricky Martin
In the UK:
"Sweet Like Chocolate" by Shanks & Bigfoot
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Next Cold War, The
(TIME Cover: June the 7th, 1999)
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Famous people born on the 8th of June: |
1671 - Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer (d. 1751)
1810 - Robert Schumann, German composer (d. 1856)
1903 - Marguerite Yourcenar, French author (d. 1987)
1940 - Nancy Sinatra, American singer
1960 - Mick Hucknall, English singer and songwriter (Simply Red)
1962 - Nick Rhodes, English musician (Duran Duran)
1976 - Lindsay Davenport, American tennis legend
1983 - Nadia Petrova, Russian tennis player
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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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