Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Sixteen Tons" by Tennessee Ernie
In the UK:
"Christmas Alphabet" by Dickie Valentine
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Theodore F. Adams
(TIME Cover: December the 5th, 1955)
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Famous people born on the 27th of December: |
1571 - Johannes Kepler, German astronomer (d. 1630)
1654 - Jacob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1705)
1717 - Pope Pius VI (d. 1799)
1773 - George Cayley, English scientist, inventor, and politician (d. 1857)
1822 - Louis Pasteur, French scientist (d. 1895)
1943 - Pete Quaife, British musician (Kinks)
1948 - Gérard Depardieu, French actor
1952 - David Knopfler, British musician (Dire Straits)
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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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