Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Too Young" by Nat King Cole
In the UK:
"Mockin' Bird Hill" by Les Paul & Mary Ford
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Famous people born on the 25th of June: |
1852 - Antoni Gaudí, Catalan architect (d. 1926)
1858 - Georges Courteline, French dramatist (d. 1929)
1903 - George Orwell (pen name of Eric Arthur Blair), British writer (d. 1950)
1924 - Sidney Lumet, American actor
1928 - Peyo, Belgian illustrator (d. 1992)
1944 - Robert Charlebois, Canadian singer
1963 - George Michael, British 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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