May 9th, 2007...

Today is Wednesday !

TIME Magazine: America at 400

(TIME Cover: May the 7th, 2007)

1147 - Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese shogun (d. 1199)
1439 - Pope Pius III (d. 1503)
1837 - Adam Opel, German engineer and industrialist (b. 1895)
1892 - Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Empress of Austria-Hungary (d. 1989)
1893 - William Moulton Marston, American psychologist, writer (co-creator, Wonder Woman)
1949 - Billy Joel, American musician
1962 - David Gahan, English singer (Depeche Mode)
1968 - Marie-José Perec, French athlete

Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr.
1948-

for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change

USA

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