Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Ballerina" by Vaughn Monroe
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Lewis Douglas
(TIME Cover: December the 1st, 1947)
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Famous people born on the 1st of January: |
431 - Pope Alexander VI (d. 1503)
1638 - Emperor Go-Sai of Japan (d. 1685)
1863 - Pierre de Coubertin, French Olympic Games initiator(d. 1937)
1881 - Vajiravudh, King of Thailand (d. 1925)
1883 - Gabrielle Chanel, French Designer (d. 1971)
1919 - J. D. Salinger, American novelist
1945 - Jacky Ickx, Belgian race car driver
1972 - Lilian Thuram, French footballer
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1948 |
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Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius
1902-1971
for his research on electrophoresis and adsorption analysis, especially for his discoveries concerning the complex nature of the serum proteins
Sweden
Uppsala University - Uppsala, Sweden
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Oscar of the best picture in 1948 |
Hamlet
directed by Laurence Olivier
with Laurence Olivier (Hamlet) and Jean Simmons (Ophelia)
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Designed in 1948 |
The Revolving Chair, model no. 4876
by Edward Wormley |
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