October 8th, 2005

October 8th, 2005...

Today is Saturday !

Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "Gold Digger" by Kanye West featuring Jamie Foxx In the UK: "Push The Button" by Sugababes

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Are We Making Hurricanes Worse?

(TIME Cover: October the 3rd, 2005)

Famous people born on the 8th of October:

1895 - Zog I, King of Albania (d. 1961)
1918 - Jens Christian Skou, Danish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1920 - Frank Herbert, American writer (d. 1986)
1939 - Paul Hogan, Australian actor
1941 - Jesse Jackson, American clergyman and civil rights activist
1949 - Sigourney Weaver, American actress
1950 - Robert Kool Bell, American musician (Kool & the Gang)
1968 - Leeroy Thornhill, British musician (The Prodigy)
1970 - Matt Damon, American actor

The Nobel Peace Prize 2005

Mohamed ElBaradei
1942-

with the IAEA, for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way

Egypt
Director General of IAEA

Photo: nobelprize.org

Oscar of the best picture in 2005

Crash
directed by Paul Haggis
with Matt Dillon (Officer Ryan)

Designed in 2005

The Kirk chair
by René Holten

Rolling Stone Magazine cover

Evangeline Lilly / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 984, October 6, 2005

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