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July 9th, 2003...

Today is Wednesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"This Is the Night"
by Clay Aiken

In the UK:
"Bring Me To Life"
by Evanescence
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Amazing Adventures of Ben Franklin, The

(TIME Cover: July the 7th, 2003)

 Famous people born on the 9th of July:

1249 - Emperor Kameyama of Japan (d. 1305)
1578 - Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1637)
1654 - Emperor Reigen of Japan (d. 1732)
1894 - Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
1929 - King Hassan II of Morocco, (d. 1999)
1932 - Donald Rumsfeld, 12th & 20th United States Secretary of Defense
1943 - John Casper, astronaut
1956 - Tom Hanks, American actor
1964 - Courtney Love, American musician
1971 - Marc Andreessen, American software developer (ofounder of Netscape Communications Corporation and co-author of Mosaic)

 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



Ashton Kutcher / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 923, May 29, 2003

 

 
 
 
     

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