Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Woody Wood-Pecker" by Kay Kyser
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Howard Hughes
(TIME Cover: July the 19th, 1948)
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Famous people born on the 23rd of July: |
645 - Yazid I, Sixth caliph of Islam (d. 683)
1339 - King Louis I of Naples (d. 1384)
1626 - Sabbatai Zevi, Ottoman Jewish religious leader
1649 - Pope Clement XI (d. 1721)
1865 - Max Heindel, Danish Christian occultist, astrologer, and mystic (d. 1919)
1931 - Te Atairangi Kaahu, Mori Queen (d. 2006)
1961 - Martin Gore, English musician and songwriter (Depeche Mode)
1965 - Slash, English-born guitarist (Guns N' Roses)
1973 - Monica Lewinsky, White House intern
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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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