Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"I Knew I Loved You" by Savage Garden
In the UK:
"Pure Shores" by All Saints
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Senator John McCain
(TIME Cover: February the 14th, 2000)
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Famous people born on the 27th of February: |
272 - Constantine I, Roman emperor (d. 337)
1711 - Constantine Mavrocordatos, Prince of Wallachia and Prince of Moldavia (d. 1769)
1902 - John Steinbeck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
1928 - Ariel Sharon, former Prime Minister of Israel
1930 - Joanne Woodward, American actress
1932 - Elizabeth Taylor, British-American actress
1957 - Adrian Smith, English musician (Iron Maiden)
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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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