Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Mañana (Is Soon Enough for Me)" by Peggy Lee
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Alcide de Gasperi
(TIME Cover: April the 19th, 1948)
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Famous people born on the 24th of April: |
1533 - William I of Orange (d. 1584)
1934 - Shirley MacLaine, American actress and author
1942 - Barbra Streisand, American singer/actress
1952 - Jean-Paul Gaultier, French fashion designer
1954 - Captain Sensible, British guitarist (The Damned)
1957 - Boris Williams, British musician (The Cure)
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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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