Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Candy Shop" by 50 Cent featuring Olivia
In the UK:
"(Is This The Way To) Amarillo" by Tony Christie featuring Peter Kay
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: 2005 TIME 100, The
(TIME Cover: April the 18th, 2005)
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Famous people born on the 22nd of April: |
1451 - Queen Isabella of Castile and Leon (d. 1504)
1610 - Pope Alexander VIII (d. 1691)
1724 - Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (d. 1804)
1766 - Madame de Staël, French author (d. 1817)
1870 (N.S.) - Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary (d. 1924)
1899 - Vladimir Nabokov, Russian writer (d. 1977)
1916 - Yehudi Menuhin, American-born violinist (d. 1999)
1937 - Jack Nicholson, American actor
1971 - Daisuke Enomoto, first Japanese space tourist
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The Nobel Peace Prize 2005 |
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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
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Oscar of the best picture in 2005 |
Crash
directed by Paul Haggis
with Matt Dillon (Officer Ryan)
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Designed in 2005 |
The Kirk chair
by René Holten |
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