| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart" by Vera Lynn
In the UK:
"Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart" by Vera Lynn
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Alben Barkley
(TIME Cover: July the 28th, 1952)
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Famous people born on the 28th of July: |
1904 - Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1990)
1907 - Earl Tupper, American inventor (d. 1983)
1929 - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States (d. 1994)
1938 - Alberto Fujimori, President of Peru
1943 - Richard Wright English musician (Pink Floyd)
1954 - Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela
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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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