Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Genie in a Bottle" by Christina Aguilera
In the UK:
"If I Let You Go" by Westlife
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Famous people born on the 24th of August: |
1198 - King Alexander II of Scotland (d. 1249)
1358 - King John I of Castile (d. 1390)
1772 - King William I of the Netherlands (d. 1840)
1787 - James Weddell, Antarctica explorer (d. 1834)
1865 - King Ferdinand I of Romania (d. 1927)
1899 - Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer (d. 1986)
1929 - Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader (d. 2004)
1947 - Paulo Coelho, Brazilian author
1948 - Jean-Michel Jarre, French musician
1951 - Oscar Hijuelos, Pulitzer Prize winning author
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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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