Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"(It's No) Sin" by Eddy Howard
In the UK:
"Longing For You" by Teresa Brewer
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Patrice Munsel
(TIME Cover: December the 3rd, 1951)
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Famous people born on the 24th of December: |
1166 - King John of England (d. 1216)
1491 - Ignatius of Loyola, Spanish founder of the Jesuit order (d. 1556)
1818 - James Prescott Joule, British physicist (d. 1889)
1837 - Elisabeth of Bavaria, Empress of Austria (d. 1898)
1845 - King George I of Greece (d. 1913)
1886 - Michael Curtiz, Hungarian-born director (d. 1962)
1905 - Howard Hughes, American film producer and inventor (d. 1976)
1922 - Ava Gardner, American actress (d. 1990)
1929 - Mary Higgins Clark, American author
1945 - Lemmy Kilmister, British singer, bassist (Motörhead)
1957 - Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan
1971 - Ricky Martin, Puerto Rican singer
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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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