| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Come on-a My House" by Rosemary Clooney
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: Ava Gardner
(TIME Cover: September the 3rd, 1951)
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Famous people born on the 6th of September: |
1666 - Tsar Ivan V of Russia (d. 1696)
1757 - Marquis de Lafayette, French soldier and statesman (d. 1834)
1876 - John James Richard Macleod, Scottish-born physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935)
1923 - King Peter II of Yugoslavia (d. 1970)
1943 - Roger Waters, bassist, songwriter, and erstwhile leader of the Brit Rock Band Pink Floyd
1961 - Paul Waaktaar-Savoy, Norwegian guitarist (a-ha)
1971 - Dolores O'Riordan, Irish musician (The Cranberries)
1974 - Nina Persson, Swedish musician (The Cardigans)
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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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