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: Edwin P. Hubble
(TIME Cover: February the 9th, 1948)
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Famous people born on the 15th of February: |
1471 - Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (d. 1503)
1564 - Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and physicist (d. 1642)
1710 - King Louis XV of France (d. 1774)
1723 - John Witherspoon, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1794)
1809 - Cyrus McCormick, American inventor (d. 1884)
1882 - John Barrymore, American actor (d. 1942)
1944 - Mick Avory, British drummer (The Kinks)
1945 - John Helliwell, British musician (Supertramp)
1946 - Marisa Berenson, American actress
1959 - Ali Campbell, British musician (UB40)
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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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