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 18th of April: |
1480 - Lucrezia Borgia, Florentine ruler and daughter of Pope Alexander VI (d. 1519)
1590 - Ahmed I, Ottoman Emperor (d. 1617)
1905 - George H. Hitchings, American scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998)
1939 - Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran
1969 - Princess Sayako of Japan
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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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