Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White" by Pérez Prado
In the UK:
"Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White" by Eddie Calvert
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Marshal Tito
(TIME Cover: June the 6th, 1955)
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Famous people born on the 8th of June: |
1671 - Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer (d. 1751)
1810 - Robert Schumann, German composer (d. 1856)
1903 - Marguerite Yourcenar, French author (d. 1987)
1940 - Nancy Sinatra, American singer
1960 - Mick Hucknall, English singer and songwriter (Simply Red)
1962 - Nick Rhodes, English musician (Duran Duran)
1976 - Lindsay Davenport, American tennis legend
1983 - Nadia Petrova, Russian tennis player
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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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