Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Wheel of Fortune" by Kay Starr
In the UK:
"Unforgettable" by Nat 'King' Cole
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Eleanor Roosevelt
(TIME Cover: April the 7th, 1952)
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Famous people born on the 11th of April: |
146 - Septimius Severus (d. 211)
1357 - John I of Portugal (d. 1433)
1492 - Marguerite of Navarre, wife of Henry II of Navarre (d. 1549)
1755 - James Parkinson, English physician (d. 1824)
1935 - Richard Kuklinski, mafia hitman (d. 2006)
1963 - Chris Ferguson, American poker player
1966 - Lisa Stansfield, English singer
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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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