Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Cry" by Johnnie Ray and The Four Lads
In the UK:
"There's Always Room At Our House" by Guy Mitchell
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Robert E. Wood
(TIME Cover: February the 25th, 1952)
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Famous people born on the 8th of March: |
1514 - Amago Haruhisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1562)
1822 - Ignacy Lukasiewicz, Polish inventor (d. 1882)
1886 - Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1972)
1946 - Randy Meisner, American musician (The Eagles)
1958 - Gary Numan, British singer
1979 - Tom Chaplin, English singer (Keane)
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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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