Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Independent Women Part I" by Destiny's Child
In the UK:
"Never Had A Dream Come True" by S Club 7
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Famous people born on the 12th of December: |
1298 - Albert II of Austria (d. 1358)
1418 - Albert VI of Austria (d. 1463)
1821 - Gustave Flaubert, French writer (d. 1880)
1863 - Edvard Munch, Norwegian expressionist painter (d. 1944)
1915 - Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor (d. 1998)
1934 - Miguel de la Madrid, President of Mexico
1976 - Dan Hawkins, British guitarist (The Darkness)
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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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