Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"If" by Perry Como
In the UK:
"The Tennessee Waltz" by Patti Page & Anita O'Day
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Matthew B. Ridgway
(TIME Cover: March the 5th, 1951)
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Famous people born on the 8th of March: |
1514 - Amago Haruhisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1562)
1822 - Ignacy Lukasiewicz, Polish inventor (d. 1882)
1886 - Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1972)
1946 - Randy Meisner, American musician (The Eagles)
1958 - Gary Numan, British singer
1979 - Tom Chaplin, English singer (Keane)
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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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