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In the USA:
"Sincerely" by McGuire Sisters
In the UK:
"Softly Softly" by Ruby Murray
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Famous people born on the 11th of March: |
1725 - Henry Benedict Stuart, pretender to the throne of Great Britain (d. 1807)
1899 - Frederick IX of Denmark (d. 1972), Danish King
1920 - Nicolaas Bloembergen, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1931 - Rupert Murdoch, Australian-born publisher and entrepreneur
1955 - Nina Hagen, German singer
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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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