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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Famous people born on the 20th of May: |
1799 - Honoré de Balzac, French novelist (d. 1850)
1883 - King Faisal I of Iraq (d. 1933)
1894 - Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, Indian Hindu sage, Jivanmukta (d. 1994)
1915 - Moshe Dayan, Israeli general (d. 1981)
1918 - Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 2004)
1944 - Joe Cocker, British singer
1946 - Cher, American 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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