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July 12th, 1952...

Today is Saturday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart"
by Vera Lynn

In the UK:
"Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart"
by Vera Lynn
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: General Mark W. Clark

(TIME Cover: July the 7th, 1952)

 Famous people born on the 12th of July:

100 BC - Julius Caesar, Roman military and political leader (d. 44 BC)
1394 - Ashikaga Yoshinori, Japanese shogun (d. 1441)
1596 - Tsar Michael I of Russia (d. 1645)
1824 - Eugène Boudin, French painter (d. 1898)
1870 - Louis II of Monaco (d. 1949)
1884 - Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor (d. 1920)
1904 - Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
1937 - Bill Cosby, American comedian and actor

 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

 
 
 
     

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