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In the USA:
"The Gypsy" by The Ink Spots
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Maurice Thorez
(TIME Cover: June the 3rd, 1946)
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Famous people born on the 5th of June: |
1723 - Adam Smith, Scottish economist (d. 1790)
1878 - Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1923)
1883 - John Maynard Keynes, English economist (d. 1946)
1898 - Federico García Lorca, Spanish lyricist and dramatist (d. 1936)
1947 - Laurie Anderson, American performance artist
1954 - Nicko McBrain, English musician (Iron Maiden)
1962 - Princess Astrid of Belgium
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1946 |
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Hermann Joseph Muller
1890-1967
for the discovery of the production of mutations by means of X-ray irradiation
USA
Indiana University - Bloomington, IN, USA
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Oscar of the best picture in 1946 |
The Best Years of Our Lives
directed by William Wyler
with Fredric March (Al Stephenson) and Harold Russell (Homer Parrish)
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Designed in 1946 |
The Radio - Walnut and bakelite
by Charles Eames |
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