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December 1st, 2000...

Today is Friday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Independent Women Part I"
by Destiny's Child

In the UK:
"Can't Fight The Moonlight"
by LeAnn Rimes
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: George W. Bush and Al Gore

(TIME Cover: November the 27th, 2000)

 Famous people born on the 1st of December:

1081 - Louis VI of France (d. 1137)
1521 - Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord (d. 1573)
1761 - Marie Tussaud, creator of wax sculptures (Madame Tussauds) (d. 1850)
1923 - Stansfield Turner, American admiral and Central Intelligence Agency director
1923 - Morris, Belgian cartoonist (Lucky Luke) (d. 2001)
1935 - Woody Allen, American film director, actor, and comedian
1944 - John Densmore, American drummer (The Doors)
1944 - Pierre Arditi, French film and stage actor
1945 - Bette Midler, American actress
1947 - Alain Bashung, French singer
1949 - Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord (d. 1993)
2001 - Aiko, Princess Toshi of Japan

 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



Drew Barrymore / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 854, November 23, 2000

 

 
 
 
     

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