January 20th, 2001

January 20th, 2001...

Today is Saturday !

Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "Independent Women Part I" by Destiny's Child In the UK: "Love Don't Cost A Thing" by Jennifer Lopez

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Future of Drugs

(TIME Cover: January the 15th, 2001)

Famous people born on the 20th of January:

225 - Gordian III, Roman Emperor (d. 244)
1435 - Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese shogun (d. 1490)
1554 - King Sebastian of Portugal (d. 1578)
1716 - King Charles III of Spain (d. 1788)
1775 - Andre Marie Ampere, French physicist (d. 1836)
1804 - Eugène Sue, French novelist (d. 1857)
1906 - Aristotle Onassis, Greek industrialist (d. 1975)
1920 - Federico Fellini, Italian film director (d. 1993)
1930 - Edwin Eugene 'Buzz' Aldrin, Jr., astronaut
1931 - David Lee, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate
1946 - David Lynch, American film director

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

U2 / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 860, January 18, 2001

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