Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Nature Boy" by King Cole
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Paul-Henri Spaak
(TIME Cover: May the 10th, 1948)
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Famous people born on the 16th of May: |
1611 - Pope Innocent XI (d. 1689)
1905 - Henry Fonda, American actor (d. 1982)
1955 - Hazel O'Connor, British singer
1966 - Janet Jackson, American singer
1970 - Gabriela Sabatini, Argentine tennis player
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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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