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December 8th, 2001...

Today is Saturday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Family Affair"
by Mary J. Blige

In the UK:
"Gotta Get Thru This"
by Daniel Bedingfield
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Women of Afghanistan

(TIME Cover: December the 3rd, 2001)

 Famous people born on the 8th of December:

65 BC - Horace, Roman poet (d. 8 BC)
1542 - Mary Queen of Scots (d. 1587)
1626 - Queen Christina of Sweden (d. 1689)
1708 - Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1765)
1765 - Eli Whitney, American inventor (d. 1825)
1861 - Aristide Maillol, French sculptor (d. 1944)
1864 - Camille Claudel, French graphic artist and sculptor (d. 1943)
1925 - Sammy Davis Jr., American actor and singer (d. 1990)
1927 - Vladimir Shatalov, Soviet Union-born cosmonaut
1936 - David Carradine, American actor
1943 - Jim Morrison, American singer (The Doors) (d. 1971)
1953 - Kim Basinger, American actress
1957 - Phil Collen, British guitarist (Def Leppard)
1966 - Sinéad O'Connor, Irish musician

 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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