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April 1st, 2003...

Today is Tuesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"In Da Club"
by 50 Cent

In the UK:
"Spirit In The Sky"
by Gareth Gates featuring The Kumars
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Gulf War II

(TIME Cover: March the 31st, 2003)

 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 2003


Shirin Ebadi
1947-

for her efforts for democracy and human rights. She has focused especially on the struggle for the rights of women and children.

Iran



Photo: nobelprize.org


     
Oscar of the best picture in 2003

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
directed by Peter Jackson
with Elijah Wood (Frodo) and Ian McKellen (gandalf)

Designed in 2003

The Ondo sofa
by René Holten

Rolling Stone Magazine cover



Avril Lavigne / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 918, March 18, 2003

 

 
 
 
     

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