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In the USA:
"Cold, Cold Heart" 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: Winston Churchill
(TIME Cover: November the 5th, 1951)
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Famous people born on the 7th of November: |
994 - Ibn Hazm, Arab philosopher (d. 1069)
1867 - Marie Curie, Polish-born chemist and physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics and in chemistry (d. 1934)
1879 - Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (d. 1940)
1913 - Albert Camus, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960)
1927 - Hiroshi Yamauchi, Japanese computer game executive
1960 - Tommy Thayer, American guitarist (KISS)
1964 - Dana Plato, American actress (d. 1999)
1967 - Sharleen Spiteri Scottish singer and songwriter (Texas)
1969 - Hélène Grimaud, French pianist
1970 - Neil Hannon, Northern Irish musician (The Divine Comedy)
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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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