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November 24th, 1952...

Today is Monday !

 
 
 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: General Lemuel Shepherd

(TIME Cover: November the 24th, 1952)

 Famous people born on the 24th of November:

1655 - Charles XI of Sweden (d. 1697)
1784 - Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States (d. 1850)
1864 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (d. 1901)
1884 - Itzhak Ben-Zvi, President of Israel (d. 1963)
1897 - Lucky Luciano, American gangster (d. 1962)
1941 - Donald 'Duck' Dunn, American musician, Booker T. and the M.G.'s
1954 - Emir Kusturica, serbian filmmake
1962 - John Squire, British guitarist (The Stone Roses)

 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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