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November 22nd, 1952...

Today is Saturday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"It's in the Book (Parts 1 & 2)"
by Johnny Standley

In the UK:
"Here In My Heart"
by Al Martino
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Claire Bloom

(TIME Cover: November the 17th, 1952)

 Famous people born on the 22nd of November:

1602 - Elisabeth of France, Queen of Philip IV of Spain (d. 1644)
1808 - Thomas Cook, British travel entrepreneur (d. 1892)
1869 - André Gide, French writer and Nobel laureate (d. 1951)
1890 - Charles de Gaulle, President of France (d. 1970)
1932 - Robert Vaughn, American actor
1946 - Aston Barrett, Jamaican musician (The Wailers Band)
1950 - Tina Weymouth, American musician (Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club)
1958 - Jamie Lee Curtis, American actress
1961 - Randal L. Schwartz, American computer programmer
1967 - Boris Becker, German tennis player

 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1952


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


     
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)

Designed in 1952

The Bookcase from the Maison du Mexique
by Charlotte Perriand, Jean Prouve, Sonia Delaunay

 
 
 
     

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