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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Famous people born on the 13th of May: |
1655 - Pope Innocent XIII (d. 1724)
1717 - Empress Maria Theresa of Austria (d. 1780)
1753 - Lazare Carnot, French general, politician, and mathematician (d. 1823)
1792 - Pope Pius IX (d. 1878)
1882 - Georges Braque, French painter (d. 1963)
1939 - Harvey Keitel, American actor
1950 - Stevie Wonder, American singer and musician
1951 - Paul Thompson, British rock drummer (Roxy Music)
1979 - Prince Carl Philip of Sweden
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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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