Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley & His Comets
In the UK:
"Rose Marie" by Slim Whitman
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Big Four at Geneva
(TIME Cover: August the 1st, 1955)
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Famous people born on the 5th of August: |
1850 - Guy de Maupassant, French author (d. 1893)
1862 - Joseph Merrick, The Elephant Man (d. 1890)
1906 - John Huston, American director (d. 1987)
1930 - Neil Armstrong, astronaut
1939 - Princess Irene of the Netherlands
1972 - Christian Olde Wolbers, Belgian bassist (Fear Factory)
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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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