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July 31st, 1999...

Today is Saturday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Genie in a Bottle"
by Christina Aguilera

In the UK:
"Livin' La Vida Loca"
by Ricky Martin
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: John F. Kennedy, Jr.

(TIME Cover: July the 26th, 1999)

 Famous people born on the 31st of July:

1143 - Emperor Nijo of Japan (d. 1165)
1527 - Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1576)
1803 - John Ericsson, Swedish inventor and engineer (d. 1889)
1901 - Jean Dubuffet, French painter and sculptor (d. 1985)
1912 - Milton Friedman, American economist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 2006)
1919 - Primo Levi, Italian author and chemist (d. 1987)
1921 - Peter Benenson, founder of Amnesty International (d. 2005)
1944 - Geraldine Chaplin, American actress
1957 - Daniel Ash, Gothic Rock artist in such bands as Bauhaus, Tones on Tail and Love and Rockets
1964 - Jim Corr, Irish singer and musician (The Corrs)
1965 - J.K. Rowling, English autor (Harry Potter)
1978 - Will Champion, English drummer (Coldplay)

 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



Mike Myers / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 814, June 10, 1999

 

 
 
 
     

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