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In the USA:
"Sincerely" by McGuire Sisters
In the UK:
"Give Me Your Word" by Tennessee Ernie Ford
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Ichiro Hatoyama
(TIME Cover: March the 14th, 1955)
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Famous people born on the 20th of March: |
43 BC - Ovid, Roman poet (d. 17)
1725 - Abdul Hamid I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1789)
1737 - Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke, King of Thailand (d. 1809)
1811 - Napoleon II of France (d. 1832)
1957 - Spike Lee, American film director
1964 - Natacha Atlas, Belgian singer
1972 - Alexander Kapranos, British musician (Franz Ferdinand)
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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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