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August 22nd, 2000...

Today is Tuesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Incomplete"
by Sisqó

In the UK:
"I Turn To You"
by Melanie C
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Joe Lieberman and Al Gore

(TIME Cover: August the 21st, 2000)

 Famous people born on the 22nd of August:

1647 - Denis Papin, French physicist, mathematician, and inventor (d. c. 1712)
1834 - Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer, physicist, inventor, aviation pioneer (d. 1906)
1854 - Milan I, King of Serbia (d. 1901)
1862 - Claude Debussy, French composer (d. 1918)
1893 - Dorothy Parker, American writer, humorist (d. 1967)
1904 - Deng Xiaoping, leader of the People's Republic of China (d. 1997)
1932 - Gerald P. Carr, American astronaut
1947 - Donna Godchaux, singer (Grateful Dead)
1961 - Roland Orzabal, singer and guitarist (Tears for Fears)
1963 - Tori Amos, American singer, songwriter, and pianist
1973 - Howie Dorough, American singer (Backstreet Boys)

 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



Blink 182 / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 846, August 3, 2000

 

 
 
 
     

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