Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"All for You" by Janet
In the UK:
"What Took You So Long" by Emma Bunton
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Science of Yoga, The
(TIME Cover: April the 23rd, 2001)
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Famous people born on the 27th of April: |
1701 - King Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia (d. 1773)
1822 - Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States (d. 1885)
1891 - Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer (d. 1953)
1899 - Walter Lantz, American cartoonist, creator of Woody Woodpecker (d. 1994)
1948 - Kate Pierson, American singer (The B-52's)
1967 - Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
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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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