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February 28th, 2000...

Today is Monday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"I Knew I Loved You"
by Savage Garden

In the UK:
"Pure Shores"
by All Saints
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: George W. Bush

(TIME Cover: February the 28th, 2000)

 Famous people born on the 28th of February:

1533 - Michel de Montaigne, French writer and philosopher (d. 1592)
1820 - John Tenniel, English illustrator (d. 1914)
1823 - Ernest Renan, French philosopher (d. 1892)
1903 - Vincente Minnelli, American director (d. 1986)
1926 - Svetlana Alliluyeva, Soviet defector, daughter of Joseph Stalin
1942 - Brian Jones, English musician (The Rolling Stones) (d. 1969)

 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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