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:
"Bound 4 Da reload (Casualty)" by Oxide & Neutrino
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Famous people born on the 9th of May: |
1147 - Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese shogun (d. 1199)
1439 - Pope Pius III (d. 1503)
1837 - Adam Opel, German engineer and industrialist (b. 1895)
1892 - Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Empress of Austria-Hungary (d. 1989)
1893 - William Moulton Marston, American psychologist, writer (co-creator, Wonder Woman)
1949 - Billy Joel, American musician
1962 - David Gahan, English singer (Depeche Mode)
1968 - Marie-José Perec, French athlete
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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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