| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Bailamos" by Enrique Iglesias
In the UK:
"Mambo No5 (A Little Bit Of...)" by Lou Bega
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: I.Q. Gene, The
(TIME Cover: September the 13th, 1999)
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Famous people born on the 17th of September: |
879 - King Charles III of France (d. 929)
1192 - Minamoto no Sanetomo Japanese shogun (d. 1219)
1271 - Wenceslas II of Bohemia and Poland (d. 1305)
1550 - Pope Paul V (d. 1621)
1743 - Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician (d. 1794)
1854 - David Dunbar Buick, American automobile pioneer (d.1929)
1860 - Billy the Kid (d. 1881)
1930 - Thomas Stafford, American astronaut
1965 - Yuji Naka, Japanese video game programmer
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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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