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August 3rd, 2005...

Today is Wednesday !

 
 
 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
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Eyewitnesses to Hiroshima

(TIME Cover: August the 1st, 2005)

 Famous people born on the 3rd of August:

1770 - King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia (d. 1840)
1811 - Elisha Graves Otis, American inventor (d. 1861)
1872 - King Haakon VII of Norway (d. 1957)
1903 - Habib Bourguiba, Tunisian Politician (d. 2000)
1918 - Sidney Gottlieb, American CIA official (d. 1999)
1935 - Georgi Shonin, cosmonaut (d. 1997)
1946 - Jack Straw, British politician
1961 - Lee Rocker, American musician (Stray Cats)
1963 - James Hetfield, American musician (Metallica)

 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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