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June 2nd, 1951...

Today is Saturday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"How High the Moon"
by Les Paul and Mary Ford

In the UK:
"Mockin' Bird Hill"
by Les Paul & Mary Ford
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Frederick Rentschler

(TIME Cover: May the 28th, 1951)

 Famous people born on the 2nd of June:

926 - Murakami, Emperor of Japan (d. 967)
1535 - Pope Leo XI (d. 1605)
1740 - Marquis de Sade, French author (d. 1814)
1743 - Count Alessandro di Cagliostro, Sicilian Occultist (d. 1795)
1835 - Pope Pius X (d. 1914)
1930 - Pete Conrad, American astronaut (d. 1999)
1940 - King Constantine II of Greece
1941 - Charlie Watts, English musician (The Rolling Stones)
1955 - Michael Steele, American musician (The Bangles)
1980 - Fabrizio Moretti, American rock drummer (The Strokes)

 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1951


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


     
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)

Designed in 1951

The Armchair Model 71
by Eero Saarinen

 
 
 
     

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