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April 1st, 2001...

Today is Sunday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Angel"
by Shaggy featuring Rayvon

In the UK:
"Pure And Simple"
by Hear'Say
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Recession

(TIME Cover: March the 26th, 2001)

 Famous people born on the 1st of April:

1220 - Emperor Go-Saga of Japan (d. 1272)
1732 - Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (d. 1809)
1815 - Otto von Bismarck, 1st Chancellor of the German Empire (d. 1898)
1868 - Edmond Rostand, French dramatist (d. 1918)
1873 (N.S.) - Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer, pianist, and conductor (d. 1943)
1929 - Milan Kundera, Czech writer
1933 - Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1948 - Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican musician
1983 - Franck Ribery, French footballer

 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 the Sopranos / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 865, March 29, 2001

 

 
 
 
     

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