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January 17th, 2001...

Today is Wednesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Independent Women Part I"
by Destiny's Child

In the UK:
"Touch Me"
by Rui Da Silva featuring Cassandra
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Future of Drugs

(TIME Cover: January the 15th, 2001)

 Famous people born on the 17th of January:

1504 - Pope Pius V (d. 1572)
1706 - Benjamin Franklin American statesman (d. 1790)
1899 - Al Capone, American gangster (d. 1947)
1911 - George Joseph Stigler, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
1927 - Eartha Kitt, American actress and singer
1933 - Dalida, French singer (d. 1987)
1942 - Muhammad Ali, American boxer
1944 - Françoise Hardy, French singer
1956 - Paul Young, English musician
1962 - Jim Carrey, Canadian actor and comedian

 The Nobel Peace Prize 2001


Kofi Annan
1938-

with United Nations, for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world

Ghana
U.N. Secretary-General



Photo: nobelprize.org


     
Oscar of the best picture in 2001

A Beautiful Mind
directed by Ron Howard
with Russell Crowe (John Nash)

Designed in 2001

The Pebbles sofa system
by Marten Claesson, Eero Koivisto and Ola Rune

Rolling Stone Magazine cover



Pop 100 / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 855, December 7, 2000

 

 
 
 
     

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