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In the USA:
"Hearts of Stone" by Fontane Sisters
In the UK:
"Mambo Italiano" by Rosemary Clooney
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Grace Kelly
(TIME Cover: January the 31st, 1955)
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Famous people born on the 5th of February: |
976 - Sanjo, Emperor of Japan (d. 1017)
1840 - John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish inventor (d. 1921)
1878 - André Citroën, French automobile pioneer (d. 1935)
1919 - Andreas Papandreou, Greek politician (d. 1996)
1940 - H.R. Giger, Swiss artist
1945 - Charlotte Rampling, British actress
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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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