Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"I Went to Your Wedding" by Patti Page
In the UK:
"The Homing Waltz" by Vera Lynn & Alma Cogan
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Famous people born on the 18th of October: |
1127 - Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (d. 1192)
1405 - Pope Pius II (d. 1464)
1634 - Luca Giordano, Italian artist (d. 1705)
1679 - Ann Putnam, Jr., American accuser in the Salem Witch Trials (d. 1716)
1859 - Henri Bergson, French philosopher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 1941)
1926 - Chuck Berry, American musician
1926 - Klaus Kinski, German actor (d. 1991)
1939 - Lee Harvey Oswald, purported American assassin of John F. Kennedy (d. 1963)
1956 - Martina Navrátilová, Czech-born tennis player
1974 - Peter Svensson, Swedish musician (The Cardigans)
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1952 |
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Selman Abraham Waksman
1888-1973
for his discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis
USA
Rutgers University - New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Oscar of the best picture in 1952 |
The Greatest Show on Earth
directed by Cecil B. DeMille
with Betty Hutton (Holly) and Charlton Heston (Brad Braden)
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Designed in 1952 |
The Bookcase from the Maison du Mexique
by Charlotte Perriand, Jean Prouve, Sonia Delaunay |
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