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:
"Stomp" by Steps
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Famous people born on the 28th of October: |
1793 - Eliphalet Remington, American firearms manufacturer (d. 1861)
1885 (O.S.) - Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet (d. 1922)
1909 - Francis Bacon, Anglo-Irish painter (d. 1992)
1941 - Hank Marvin, English guitarist
1955 - Bill Gates, American software pioneer
1956 - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran
1963 - Eros Ramazzotti, Italian singer
1967 - Julia Roberts, American actres
1967 - Sophie, Hereditary Princess of Liechtenstein
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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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