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: Markos Vafiades
(TIME Cover: April the 5th, 1948)
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Famous people born on the 7th of April: |
1652 - Pope Clement XII (d. 1740)
1860 - Will Keith Kellogg, American cereal manufacturer (d. 1951)
1893 - Allen Dulles, American Central Intelligence Agency director (d. 1969)
1915 - Billie Holiday, American singer (d. 1959)
1920 - Ravi Shankar, Indian sitar player
1939 - Francis Ford Coppola, American film director
1944 - Gerhard Schröder, Chancellor of Germany
1945 - Joël Robuchon, French chef
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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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