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:
"Don't Call Me Baby" by Madison Avenue
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Love Bug, The
(TIME Cover: May the 15th, 2000)
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Famous people born on the 21st of May: |
1471 - Albrecht Dürer, German painter (d. 1528)
1527 - King Philip II of Spain (d. 1598)
1860 - Willem Einthoven, Dutch inventor, Nobel laureate (d. 1927)
1921 - Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist (d. 1989)
1943 - Hilton Valentine, British guitarist (The Animals)
1945 - Ernst Messerschmid, German astronaut
1972 - The Notorious B.I.G., American musician (d. 1997)
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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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