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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 31st of July: |
1143 - Emperor Nijo of Japan (d. 1165)
1527 - Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1576)
1803 - John Ericsson, Swedish inventor and engineer (d. 1889)
1901 - Jean Dubuffet, French painter and sculptor (d. 1985)
1912 - Milton Friedman, American economist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 2006)
1919 - Primo Levi, Italian author and chemist (d. 1987)
1921 - Peter Benenson, founder of Amnesty International (d. 2005)
1944 - Geraldine Chaplin, American actress
1957 - Daniel Ash, Gothic Rock artist in such bands as Bauhaus, Tones on Tail and Love and Rockets
1964 - Jim Corr, Irish singer and musician (The Corrs)
1965 - J.K. Rowling, English autor (Harry Potter)
1978 - Will Champion, English drummer (Coldplay)
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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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