December 9th, 2006

December 9th, 2006...

Today is Saturday !

Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "I Wanna Love You" by Akon featuring Snoop Dogg In the UK: "Patience" by Take That

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Why We Worry About the Wrong Things

(TIME Cover: December the 4th, 2006)

Famous people born on the 9th of December:

1447 - Chenghua, Emperor of China (d. 1487)
1571 - Metius (Adriaan Adriaanszoon), Dutch mathematician and astronomer (d. 1635)
1868 - Fritz Haber, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1934)
1901 - Jean Mermoz, French pilot (d. 1936)
1906 - Grace Murray Hopper, American computer pioneer (d. 1992)
1916 - Kirk Douglas, American actor
1927 - Pierre Henry, French composer
1929 - John Cassavetes, American actor and director (d. 1989)
1953 - John Malkovich, American actor
1972 - Fabrice Santoro, Tahitian-born French tennis player
1991 - Prince Joachim, Archduke of Austria-Este, Belgian Prince

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

Borat / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 1014, November 30, 2006

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