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December 23rd, 2001...

Today is Sunday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"How You Remind Me"
by Nickelback

In the UK:
"Somethin' Stupid"
by Robbie Williams & Nicole Kidman
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Women of Afghanistan

(TIME Cover: December the 3rd, 2001)

 Famous people born on the 23rd of December:

245 - Zenobia, the queen of Palmyra
1537 - King John III of Sweden (d. 1592)
1750 - King Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (d. 1827)
1777 - Tsar Alexander I of Russia (d. 1825)
1790 - Jean François Champollion, French Egyptologist (d. 1832)
1864 - Zorka of Montenegro, Princess of Serbia (d. 1890)
1918 - Helmut Schmidt, Chancellor of Germany
1933 - Akihito, Emperor of Japan
1943 - Silvia Sommerlath, Queen of Sweden
1951 - Anthony Phillips, British guitarist (Genesis)
1956 - Dave Murray, English guitarist (Iron Maiden)
1956 - Michele Alboreto, Italian Formula one driver (d. 2001)
1964 - Eddie Vedder, American musician (Pearl Jam)

 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



9-11-01 / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 880, October 25, 2001

 

 
 
 
     

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