| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"It Wasn't Me" by Shaggy featuring Ricardo 'RikRok' Ducent
In the UK:
"Whole Again" by Atomic Kitten
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: AIDS in Africa
(TIME Cover: February the 12th, 2001)
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Famous people born on the 14th of February: |
1483 - Zahir al-Din Mohammed Babur Shah, Moghul emperor of India (d. 1530)
1869 - Charles Wilson, Scottish physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1959)
1943 - Maceo Parker, American musician (P-Funk)
1944 - Alan Parker, British film director and writer
1946 - Bernard Dowiyogo, President of Nauru (d. 2003)
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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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