Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Delicado" by Percy Faith
In the UK:
"Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart" by Vera Lynn
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Famous people born on the 9th of July: |
1249 - Emperor Kameyama of Japan (d. 1305)
1578 - Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1637)
1654 - Emperor Reigen of Japan (d. 1732)
1894 - Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
1929 - King Hassan II of Morocco, (d. 1999)
1932 - Donald Rumsfeld, 12th & 20th United States Secretary of Defense
1943 - John Casper, astronaut
1956 - Tom Hanks, American actor
1964 - Courtney Love, American musician
1971 - Marc Andreessen, American software developer (ofounder of Netscape Communications Corporation and co-author of Mosaic)
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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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