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October 11th, 2000...

Today is Wednesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Music"
by Madonna

In the UK:
"Against All Odds"
by Mariah Carey & Westlife
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Abortion Pill

(TIME Cover: October the 9th, 2000)

 Famous people born on the 11th of October:

1671 - Frederick IV of Denmark (d. 1730)
1821 - George Williams, English founder of the YMCA (d. 1905)
1844 - Henry Heinz, American food manufacturer (d. 1916)
1884 - Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States (d. 1962)
1885 - François Mauriac, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
1919 - Art Blakey, American jazz drummer (d. 1990)
1969 - Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands
1971 - Petra Haden, American musician (The Rentals)

 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2000


Eric R. Kandel
1929-

with Arvid Carlsson and Paul Greengard, for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system

USA
Columbia University - New York, NY, USA



Photo: nobelprize.org


     
Oscar of the best picture in 2000

Gladiator
directed by Ridley Scott
with Russell Crowe (Maximus Decimus Meridius) and Joaquin Phoenix (Commodus)

Designed in 2000

The Marumaru
by Kazuyo Sejima

Rolling Stone Magazine cover



Gisele / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 849, September 14, 2000

 

 
 
 
     

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