Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Love is a Many-Splendored Thing" by Four Aces
In the UK:
"Rose Marie" by Slim Whitman
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Richard Nixon
(TIME Cover: October the 10th, 1955)
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Famous people born on the 12th of October: |
1008 - Emperor Go-Ichijo of Japan (d. 1036)
1350 - Dmitry Donskoy, Grand Prince of Moscovy (d. 1389)
1537 - King Edward VI of England (d. 1553)
1798 - Pedro I of Brazil (d. 1834)
1896 - Eugenio Montale, Italian poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
1935 - Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor
1942 - Melvin Franklin, American singer (The Temptations) (d. 1995)
1948 - Rick Parfitt, British musician (Status Quo)
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1955 |
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Willis Eugene Lamb
1913-
for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum
USA
Stanford University - Stanford, CA, USA
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Oscar of the best picture in 1955 |
Marty
directed by Delbert Mann
with Ernest Borgnine (Marty Pilletti), Joe Mantell (Angie) and Betsy Blair (Clara Snyder)
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Designed in 1955 |
The Lounge chair
by Herbert Hirche |
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