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August 4th, 2005...

Today is Thursday !

 
 
 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 4th of August:

1521 - Pope Urban VII (d. 1590)
1755 - Nicolas-Jacques Conté, French painter, inventor of the modern pencil (d. 1805)
1834 - John Venn, English mathematician (d. 1923)
1900 - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, (Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother), Queen consort of George VI of the United Kingdom (d. 2002)
1901 - Louis Armstrong, American musician (d. 1971)
1960 - José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, 5th Prime Minister of Spain

 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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