Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"I'm Real (Murder Remix)" by Jennifer Lopez featuring Ja Rule
In the UK:
"Can't Get You Out Of My Head" by Kylie Minogue
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Fear Factor, The
(TIME Cover: October the 22nd, 2001)
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Famous people born on the 22nd of October: |
1197 - Emperor Juntoku of Japan (d. 1242)
1511 - Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1553)
1688 - Nadir Shah of Persia (d. 1747)
1689 - King John V of Portugal (d. 1750)
1811 - Franz Liszt, Hungarian pianist and composer (d. 1886)
1903 - George Wells Beadle, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 1989)
1913 - Bao Dai, Emperor of Vietnam (d. 1997)
1938 - Christopher Lloyd, American actor
1943 - Catherine Deneuve, French actress
1968 - Shaggy, Jamaican musician
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The Nobel Peace Prize 2001 |
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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
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Oscar of the best picture in 2001 |
A Beautiful Mind
directed by Ron Howard
with Russell Crowe (John Nash)
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Designed in 2001 |
The Pebbles sofa system
by Marten Claesson, Eero Koivisto and Ola Rune |
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