Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Why Don't You Believe Me?" by Joni James
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: Alfred Jacobsen
(TIME Cover: December the 1st, 1952)
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Famous people born on the 14th of December: |
1009 - Emperor Go-Suzaku of Japan (d. 1045)
1503 - Nostradamus, French astrologer (d. 1566)
1546 - Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer (d. 1601)
1824 - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (d. 1898)
1895 - King George VI of the United Kingdom (d. 1952)
1946 - Jane Birkin, British-born actress
1949 - Cliff Williams, British-born bassist (AC/DC)
1958 - Mike Scott, British singer and songwriter (The Waterboys)
1958 - Spider Stacy (Peter Richard Stacy), British-born tin whistle player (The Pogues)
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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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