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: Ava Gardner
(TIME Cover: September the 3rd, 1951)
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Famous people born on the 9th of September: |
1466 - Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shogun (d. 1523)
1585 - Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman (d. 1642)
1737 - Luigi Galvani, Italian physician and physicist (d. 1798)
1828 (N.S.) - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (d. 1910)
1908 - Cesare Pavese, Italian poet and novelist (d. 1950)
1941 - Otis Redding, American singer and songwriter (d. 1967)
1941 - Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist
1952 - David A. Stewart, English musician (Eurythmics)
1960 - Hugh Grant, British actor
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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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