Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Dilemma" by Nelly featuring Kelly Rowland
In the UK:
"Round Round" by Sugababes
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Young and Bipolar
(TIME Cover: August the 19th, 2002)
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Famous people born on the 25th of August: |
1530 - Tsar Ivan IV of Russia (d. 1584)
1772 - King William I of the Netherlands (d. 1843)
1786 - King Ludwig I of Bavaria (d. 1868)
1819 - Allan Pinkerton, American private detective (d. 1884)
1845 - King Ludwig II of Bavaria (d. 1886)
1918 - Leonard Bernstein, American conductor, composer, educator and pianist (d. 1990)
1930 - Sir Sean Connery, British actor
1949 - Gene Simmons, Israeli-born bassist and singer (KISS)
1951 - Rob Halford, English singer (Judas Priest)
1954 - Elvis Costello, English musician
1958 - Tim Burton, American film director, producer, and screenwriter
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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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