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August 22nd, 2001...

Today is Wednesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Fallin'"
by Alicia Keys

In the UK:
"21 Seconds"
by So Solid Crew
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: James Thomson

(TIME Cover: August the 20th, 2001)

 Famous people born on the 22nd of August:

1647 - Denis Papin, French physicist, mathematician, and inventor (d. c. 1712)
1834 - Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer, physicist, inventor, aviation pioneer (d. 1906)
1854 - Milan I, King of Serbia (d. 1901)
1862 - Claude Debussy, French composer (d. 1918)
1893 - Dorothy Parker, American writer, humorist (d. 1967)
1904 - Deng Xiaoping, leader of the People's Republic of China (d. 1997)
1932 - Gerald P. Carr, American astronaut
1947 - Donna Godchaux, singer (Grateful Dead)
1961 - Roland Orzabal, singer and guitarist (Tears for Fears)
1963 - Tori Amos, American singer, songwriter, and pianist
1973 - Howie Dorough, American singer (Backstreet Boys)

 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



N Sync / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 875, August 16, 2001

 

 
 
 
     

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