Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Because of You" by Tony Bennett
In the UK:
"Too Young" by Nat 'King' Cole & Jimmy Young
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: King Farouk I
(TIME Cover: September the 10th, 1951)
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Famous people born on the 10th of September: |
1169 - Alexius II Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1183)
1487 - Pope Julius III (d. 1555)
1638 - Maria Theresa of Spain, queen of Louis XIV of France (d. 1683)
1659 - Henry Purcell, English composer (d. 1695)
1898 - Waldo Semon, American inventor (d. 1999)
1914 - Robert Wise, American film director (d. 2005)
1922 - Yma Súmac, Peruvian singer
1933 - Yevgeny Khrunov, cosmonaut (d. 2000)
1938 - Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer
1941 - Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese inventor and video game designer (d. 1997)
1950 - Joe Perry, American musician (Aerosmith)
1958 - Siobhan Fahey, Irish singer (Bananarama and Shakespear's Sister)
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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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