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December 27th, 2004...

Today is Monday !

 
 
 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 27th of December:

1571 - Johannes Kepler, German astronomer (d. 1630)
1654 - Jacob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1705)
1717 - Pope Pius VI (d. 1799)
1773 - George Cayley, English scientist, inventor, and politician (d. 1857)
1822 - Louis Pasteur, French scientist (d. 1895)
1943 - Pete Quaife, British musician (Kinks)
1948 - Gérard Depardieu, French actor
1952 - David Knopfler, British musician (Dire Straits)

 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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