October 8th, 2001

October 8th, 2001...

Today is Monday !

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: How Real Is the Threat?

(TIME Cover: October the 8th, 2001)

Famous people born on the 8th of October:

1895 - Zog I, King of Albania (d. 1961)
1918 - Jens Christian Skou, Danish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1920 - Frank Herbert, American writer (d. 1986)
1939 - Paul Hogan, Australian actor
1941 - Jesse Jackson, American clergyman and civil rights activist
1949 - Sigourney Weaver, American actress
1950 - Robert Kool Bell, American musician (Kool & the Gang)
1968 - Leeroy Thornhill, British musician (The Prodigy)
1970 - Matt Damon, American actor

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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