Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"How High the Moon" by Les Paul and Mary Ford
In the UK:
"Mockin' Bird Hill" by Les Paul & Mary Ford
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Harry S. Truman
(TIME Cover: April the 23rd, 1951)
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Famous people born on the 26th of April: |
121 - Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor (d. 180)
1573 - Marie de' Medici, wife of Henry IV of France (d. 1642)
1648 - King Peter II of Portugal (d. 1706)
1798 - Eugène Delacroix, French painter (d. 1863)
1917 - I.M. Pei, Chinese-born architect
1940 - Giorgio Moroder, Italian composer
1960 - Roger 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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