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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: Barbara Bel Geddes
(TIME Cover: April the 9th, 1951)
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Famous people born on the 13th of April: |
1519 - Catherine de Medici, wife of Henry II of France (d. 1589)
1584 - Albert VI of Bavaria (d. 1666)
1743 - Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States (New style date) (d. 1826)
1771 - Richard Trevithick, English engineer and inventor of the first working railway steam locomotive (d. 1833)
1866 - Butch Cassidy, American outlaw (d. 1908)
1901 - Jacques Lacan, French psychoanalyst and semanticist (d. 1981)
1906 - Samuel Beckett, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)
1944 - Jack Casady, American musician (Jefferson Airplane)
1962 - Hillel Slovak, Israeli-born guitarist (Red Hot Chili Peppers) (d. 1988)
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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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