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: Daniel F. Malan
(TIME Cover: May the 5th, 1952)
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Famous people born on the 10th of May: |
563 BC - Siddhartha Gautama, later Buddha (d. 483 BC)
1265 - Emperor Fushimi of Japan (d. 1317)
1788 - Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist (d. 1827)
1899 - Fred Astaire, American singer, dancer, and actor (d. 1987)
1902 - David O. Selznick, American film producer (d. 1965)
1957 - Sid Vicious, English bassist (The Sex Pistols) (d. 1979)
1960 - Bono, Irish singer (U2)
1965 - Linda Evangelista, Canadian Supermodel
1974 - Sylvain Wiltord, French footballer
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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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