| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Come on Over Baby (All I Want Is You)" by Christina Aguilera
In the UK:
"Black Coffee" by All Saints
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Serbia: Free at Last
(TIME Cover: October the 16th, 2000)
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Famous people born on the 17th of October: |
1817 - Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian Muslim intellectual (d. 1898)
1912 - Pope John Paul I (d. 1978)
1915 - Arthur Miller, American playwright (d. 2005)
1918 - Rita Hayworth, American actress (d. 1987)
1920 - Montgomery Clift, American actor (d. 1966)
1956 - Mae Jemison, astronaut
1972 - Eminem, American rapper
1979 - Kimi Räikkönen, Finnish race car driver
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2000 |
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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
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Oscar of the best picture in 2000 |
Gladiator
directed by Ridley Scott
with Russell Crowe (Maximus Decimus Meridius) and Joaquin Phoenix (Commodus)
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Designed in 2000 |
The Marumaru
by Kazuyo Sejima |
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