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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: Wall Street Bull
(TIME Cover: June the 14th, 1948)
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Famous people born on the 18th of June: |
1517 - Emperor Ogimachi of Japan (d. 1593)
1757 - Ignaz Pleyel, Austrian composer and piano manufacturer (d. 1831)
1824 - Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1769)
1901 - Grand Duchess Anastasia Nicolaievna Romanova of Russia (d. 1918)
1918 - Ajahn Chah, Buddhist meditation master
1937 - John D. Rockefeller IV, U.S. Senator
1937 - Vitali Zholobov, cosmonaut
1942 - Paul McCartney, English singer and songwriter (The Beatles)
1952 - Isabella Rossellini, Italian actress
1961 - Alison Moyet, English pop singer
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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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