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September 3rd, 1952...

Today is Wednesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart"
by Vera Lynn

In the UK:
"The Homing Waltz"
by Vera Lynn & Alma Cogan
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Katharine Hepburn

(TIME Cover: September the 1st, 1952)

 Famous people born on the 3rd of September:

1034 - Emperor Go-Sanjo of Japan (d. 1073)
1875 - Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian automotive engineer (d. 1951)
1928 - Gaston Thorn, President of the European Commission
1942 - Al Jardine, American musician (the Beach Boys)
1953 - Jean-Pierre Jeunet, French film director
1955 - Steve Jones, English musician (Sex Pistols)

 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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