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February 12th, 2000...

Today is Saturday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"I Knew I Loved You"
by Savage Garden

In the UK:
"Rise"
by Gabrielle
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Big Money and Politics

(TIME Cover: February the 7th, 2000)

 Famous people born on the 12th of February:

1074 - Conrad, King of Germany and Italy (d. 1101)
1218 - Kujo Yoritsune, Japanese shogun (d. 1256)
1809 - Charles Darwin, English naturalist (d. 1882)
1809 - Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (d. 1865)
1933 - Costa-Gavras, Greek-born director and writer
1939 - Ray Manzarek, American keyboardist (The Doors)
1942 - Ehud Barak, Prime Minister of Israel
1950 - Steve Hackett, British musician (Genesis)

 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



Melissa Etheridge and David Crosby / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 833, February 3, 2000

 

 
 
 
     

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