October 5th, 2001

October 5th, 2001...

Today is Friday !

Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "Fallin'" by Alicia Keys In the UK: "Can't Get You Out Of My Head" by Kylie Minogue

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Osama bin Laden

(TIME Cover: October the 1st, 2001)

Famous people born on the 5th of October:

1713 - Denis Diderot, French philosopher and encylopedist (d. 1784)
1829 - Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States (d.1886)
1864 - Louis Lumière, French film pioneer (d. 1948)
1907 - Mrs. Miller, American singer (d. 1997)
1929 - Richard F. Gordon, Jr., American astronaut
1930 - Pavel Popovich, Soviet cosmonaut
1936 - Václav Havel, playwright and President of the Czech Republic
1942 - Richard Street, American r&b singer (The Temptations)
1951 - Bob Geldof, Irish singer & songwriter (The Boomtown Rats)

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

Cast of American Pie 2 (Girls) / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 876, August 30, 2001

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