Number-one song in the charts today |
|
In the USA:
"Cry" by Johnnie Ray and The Four Lads
In the UK:
"The Loveliest Night Of The Year" by Mario Lanza & Anne Shelton
|
TIME Magazine cover this week |
|
TIME Magazine: Anthony Eden
(TIME Cover: February the 11th, 1952)
|
Famous people born on the 11th of February: |
1377 - King Ladislas of Naples (d. 1414)
1535 - Pope Gregory XIV (d. 1591)
1902 - Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect and designer (d. 1971)
1909 - Joseph Mankiewicz, American director (d. 1993)
1920 - King Farouk I of Egypt (d. 1965)
1926 - Paul Bocuse, French chef
1962 - Sheryl Crow, American singer/songwriter, musician
1969 - Jennifer Aniston, American actress
|
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 |
|