Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Because of You" by Tony Bennett
In the UK:
"Too Young" by Nat 'King' Cole & Jimmy Young
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Graham Greene
(TIME Cover: October the 29th, 1951)
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Famous people born on the 29th of October: |
1017 - Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1056)
1917 - Eddie Constantine, American actor/singer (d. 1993)
1930 - Niki de Saint Phalle, French sculptor (d. 2002)
1955 - Roger O'Donnell, English musician (The Cure)
1971 - Winona Ryder, American actress
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1951 |
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Max Theiler
1899-1972
for his discoveries concerning yellow fever and how to combat it
Union of South Africa
Laboratories of the Division of Medicine and Public Health, Rockefeller Foundation - New York, NY, USA
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Oscar of the best picture in 1951 |
An American in Paris
directed by Vincente Minnelli
with Gene Kelly (Jerry Mulligan), Leslie Caron (Lise Bouvier) and Georges Guétary (Henri Baurel)
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Designed in 1951 |
The Armchair Model 71
by Eero Saarinen |
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