January 20th, 2006

January 20th, 2006...

Today is Friday !

Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "Laffy Taffy" by D4L In the UK: "That's My Goal" by Shayne Ward

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: The Man Who Bought Washington

(TIME Cover: January the 16th, 2006)

Famous people born on the 20th of January:

225 - Gordian III, Roman Emperor (d. 244)
1435 - Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese shogun (d. 1490)
1554 - King Sebastian of Portugal (d. 1578)
1716 - King Charles III of Spain (d. 1788)
1775 - Andre Marie Ampere, French physicist (d. 1836)
1804 - Eugène Sue, French novelist (d. 1857)
1906 - Aristotle Onassis, Greek industrialist (d. 1975)
1920 - Federico Fellini, Italian film director (d. 1993)
1930 - Edwin Eugene 'Buzz' Aldrin, Jr., astronaut
1931 - David Lee, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate
1946 - David Lynch, American film director

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2006

Orhan Pamuk
1952-

who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures

Turkey

Photo: nobelprize.org

Oscar of the best picture in 2006

The Departed
directed by Martin Scorsese
with Matt Damon (Colin Sullivan), Leonardo DiCaprio (Billy Costigan), Jack Nicholson (Frank Costello)

Designed in 2006

The Zanotta veryround seat
by Louise Campbell

Rolling Stone Magazine cover

Jay-Z / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 989, December 15, 2005

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