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December 18th, 2004...

Today is Saturday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Drop It Like It's Hot"
by Snoop Dogg featuring Pharrell

In the UK:
"Do They Know It's Christmas?"
by Band Aid 20
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Stealth Killer, The

(TIME Cover: December the 6th, 2004)

 Famous people born on the 18th of December:

1507 - Ouchi Yoshitaka, Japanese warlord (d. 1551)
1863 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (d. 1914)
1878 - Josef Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union (d. 1953)
1890 - Edwin Armstrong, American inventor (d. 1954)
1913 - Willy Brandt, Chancellor of Germany and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1992)
1934 - Boris Volynov, cosmonaut
1943 - Keith Richards, British guitarist (The Rolling Stones)
1946 - Steven Spielberg, American film director
1963 - Brad Pitt, American actor
1971 - Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, Spanish tennis player
1978 - Katie Holmes, American actress
1980 - Christina Aguilera, American singer

 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



500 Greatest Songs / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 963

 

 
 
 
     

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