| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Maria Maria" by Santana featuring The Product G&B
In the UK:
"Fill Me In" by Craig David
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Famous people born on the 16th of April: |
778 - King Louis the Pious (d. 840)
1319 - King John II of France (d. 1364)
1889 - Charles Chaplin, English actor, writer, and film producer (d. 1977)
1921 - Peter Ustinov, English actor (d. 2004)
1927 - Pope Benedict XVI
1940 - Margrethe II of Denmark, queen regnant
1953 - Peter Garrett, Australian musician (Midnight Oil)
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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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