August 12th, 2005

August 12th, 2005...

Today is Friday !

Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "We Belong Together" by Mariah Carey In the UK: "You're Beautiful" by James Blunt

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Being 13

(TIME Cover: August the 8th, 2005)

Famous people born on the 12th of August:

1503 - Christian III of Denmark and Norway (d. 1559)
1604 - Tokugawa Iemitsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1651)
1629 - Tsar Alexei I of Russia (d. 1676)
1643 - King Afonso VI of Portugal (d. 1683)
1762 - King George IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1830)
1881 - Cecil B. DeMille, American director (d. 1959)
1887 - Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1961)
1949 - Mark Knopfler, British guitarist (Dire Straits)
1971 - Pete Sampras, American tennis player
1981 - Djibril Cissé, French footballer

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

Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughan / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 979

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