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In the USA:
"Ballad of Davy Crockett" by Bill Hayes
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: Ngo Dinh Diem
(TIME Cover: April the 4th, 1955)
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Famous people born on the 5th of April: |
1288 - Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (d. 1336)
1479 - Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru (d. 1574)
1732 - Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French artist (d. 1806)
1908 - Bette Davis, American actress (d. 1989)
1908 - Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor (d. 1989)
1916 - Gregory Peck, American actor (d. 2003)
1937 - Colin Powell, U.S. Secretary of State
1942 - Peter Greenaway, Welsh film director
1950 - Agnetha Fältskog, Swedish singer (ABBA)
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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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