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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 7th of September: |
1533 - Queen Elizabeth I of England (d. 1603)
1909 - Elia Kazan, Greek-born film director (d. 20
1912 - David Packard, American electrical engineer and businessman (d. 1996)
1930 - King Baudouin I of Belgium (d. 1993)
1936 - Buddy Holly, American singer (d. 1959)
1949 - Gloria Gaynor, American singer
1968 - Marcel Desailly, French footballer
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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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