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December 1st, 2004...

Today is Wednesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"My Boo"
by Usher and Alicia Keys

In the UK:
"I'll Stand By You"
by Girls Aloud
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Most Amazing Inventions of 2004, The

(TIME Cover: November the 29th, 2004)

 Famous people born on the 1st of December:

1081 - Louis VI of France (d. 1137)
1521 - Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord (d. 1573)
1761 - Marie Tussaud, creator of wax sculptures (Madame Tussauds) (d. 1850)
1923 - Stansfield Turner, American admiral and Central Intelligence Agency director
1923 - Morris, Belgian cartoonist (Lucky Luke) (d. 2001)
1935 - Woody Allen, American film director, actor, and comedian
1944 - John Densmore, American drummer (The Doors)
1944 - Pierre Arditi, French film and stage actor
1945 - Bette Midler, American actress
1947 - Alain Bashung, French singer
1949 - Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord (d. 1993)
2001 - Aiko, Princess Toshi of Japan

 The Nobel Peace Prize 2004


Wangari Muta Maathai
1940-

for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace

Kenya



Photo: nobelprize.org


     
Oscar of the best picture in 2004

Million Dollar Baby
directed by Clint Eastwood
with Clint Eastwood (Frankie Dunn), Morgan Freeman (Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris) and Hilary Swank (Maggie Fitzgerald)

Designed in 2004

The Easy stacking chair
by Jerszy seymour

Rolling Stone Magazine cover



John Kerry / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 961, November 11, 2004

 

 
 
 
     

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