kakorama: a ride into the past
 

 

July 4th, 1999...

Today is Sunday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"If You Had My Love"
by Jennifer Lopez

In the UK:
"9pm (Till I Come)"
by A.T.B.
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Kosovo: The Awful Truth

(TIME Cover: June the 28th, 1999)

 Famous people born on the 4th of July:

1330 - Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Japanese shogun (d. 1367)
1546 - Murat III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1595)
1799 - King Oscar I of Sweden, French general (d. 1859)
1907 - Gordon Griffith, American director (d. 1958)
1918 - Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, Tongan king (d. 2006)
1927 - Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress
1973 - Michael Johnson, England-born Jamaican footballer

 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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