Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"The Tennessee Waltz" by Patti Page
In the UK:
"The Petite Waltz" by Billy Cotton Band & Anne Shelton
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Dwight D. Eisenhower
(TIME Cover: February the 12th, 1951)
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Famous people born on the 16th of February: |
1032 - Emperor Yingzong of China (d. 1067)
1710 - King Louis XV of France (d. 1774)
1866 - Vyacheslav Ivanov, a Russian poet (d. 1949)
1959 - John McEnroe, American tennis player
1960 - Pete Willis, English guitarist (Def Leppard)
1961 - Andy Taylor, English musician (Duran Duran)
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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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