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: Dwight D. Eisenhower
(TIME Cover: November the 3rd, 1952)
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Famous people born on the 9th of November: |
1841 - King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (d. 1910)
1877 - Allama Iqbal, Indian National poet of Pakistan (d. 1938)
1889 - Jean Monnet, French internationalist (d. 1979)
1913 - Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress and inventor (d. 2000)
1934 - Carl Sagan, American astronomer and writer (d. 1996)
1951 - Lou Ferrigno, American bodybuilder and actor (Incredible Hulk tv series)
1955 - Karen Dotrice, British actress, famous for Mary Poppins
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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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