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: Barbara Ann Scott
(TIME Cover: February the 2nd, 1948)
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Famous people born on the 4th of February: |
1688 - Pierre de Marivaux, French writer (d. 1763)
1881 - Fernand Léger, French painter (d. 1955)
1902 - Charles Lindbergh, American pilot (d. 1974)
1948 - Alice Cooper, American musician
1953 - Kitaro, Japanese composer
1975 - Natalie Imbruglia, Australian musician and actress
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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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