| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Sincerely" by McGuire Sisters
In the UK:
"Softly Softly" by Ruby Murray
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Marcos Perez Jimenez
(TIME Cover: February the 28th, 1955)
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Famous people born on the 1st of March: |
1445 - Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (d. 1510)
1456 - King Ladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary (d. 1516)
1810 - Frédéric Chopin, Polish-French composer and pianist (d. 1849)
1922 - Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1995)
1927 - Harry Belafonte, American musician and actor
1935 - Robert Conrad, American actor
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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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