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:
"Here In My Heart" by Al Martino
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Joyce Cary
(TIME Cover: October the 20th, 1952)
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Famous people born on the 25th of October: |
1330 - Louis II of Flanders (d. 1384)
1806 - Max Stirner, German philosopher (d. 1856)
1838 - Georges Bizet, French composer (d. 1875)
1881 - Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor (d. 1973)
1921 - King Michael I of Romania
1935 - Russell Schweickart, astronaut
1944 - Jon Anderson, English singer (Yes)
1955 - Matthias Jabs, German guitarist and songwriter (Scorpions)
1962 - Chad Smith, American drummer (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
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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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