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 30th of July: |
1470 - Hongzhi, Emperor of China (d. 1505)
1549 - Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1609)
1863 - Henry Ford, American industrialist (d. 1947)
1926 - Christine McGuire, American singer (The McGuire Sisters)
1939 - Peter Bogdanovich, American film director
1941 - Paul Anka, Canadian singer and composer
1947 - Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-born American actor, body builder, and Governor of California
1958 - Kate Bush, British musician
1963 - Lisa Kudrow, American actress
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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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