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September 28th, 1951...

Today is Friday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Because of You"
by Tony Bennett

In the UK:
"Too Young"
by Nat 'King' Cole & Jimmy Young
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: General Jean de Tassigny

(TIME Cover: September the 24th, 1951)

 Famous people born on the 28th of September:

1601 - King Louis XIII of France (d. 1643)
1907 - Bhagat Singh, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1931)
1920 - William Conrad, American actor (d. 1994)
1922 - Arthur Penn, American director
1947 - Liz Torres, American actress and singer
1952 - Dumitru Prunariu, Romanian cosmonaut
1976 - Francesco Totti, Italian footballer

 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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