Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Ain't It Funny (Murder Remix)" by Jennifer Lopez featuring Ja Rule
In the UK:
"Unchained Melody" by Gareth Gates
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Yasser Arafat
(TIME Cover: April the 8th, 2002)
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Famous people born on the 13th of April: |
1519 - Catherine de Medici, wife of Henry II of France (d. 1589)
1584 - Albert VI of Bavaria (d. 1666)
1743 - Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States (New style date) (d. 1826)
1771 - Richard Trevithick, English engineer and inventor of the first working railway steam locomotive (d. 1833)
1866 - Butch Cassidy, American outlaw (d. 1908)
1901 - Jacques Lacan, French psychoanalyst and semanticist (d. 1981)
1906 - Samuel Beckett, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)
1944 - Jack Casady, American musician (Jefferson Airplane)
1962 - Hillel Slovak, Israeli-born guitarist (Red Hot Chili Peppers) (d. 1988)
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The Nobel Peace Prize 2002 |
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Jimmy Carter
1924-
for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development
USA
39th President of the United States of America
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Oscar of the best picture in 2002 |
Chicago
directed by Rob Marshall
with John C. Reilly (Amos Hart), Renée Zellweger (Roxie Hart) and Catherine Zeta-Jones (Velma Kelly)
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Designed in 2002 |
The Fly seat
by Mark Robson |
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