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In the USA:
"It's All in the Game" by Tommy Edwards
In the UK:
"Carolina Moon / Stupid Cupid" by Connie Francis
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Amos Stagg
(TIME Cover: October the 20th, 1958)
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Famous people born on the 25th of October: |
1330 - Louis II of Flanders (d. 1384)
1806 - Max Stirner, German philosopher (d. 1856)
1838 - Georges Bizet, French composer (d. 1875)
1881 - Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor (d. 1973)
1921 - King Michael I of Romania
1935 - Russell Schweickart, astronaut
1944 - Jon Anderson, English singer (Yes)
1955 - Matthias Jabs, German guitarist and songwriter (Scorpions)
1962 - Chad Smith, American drummer (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1958 |
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Frederick Sanger
1918-
for his work on the structure of proteins, especially that of insulin
United Kingdom
University of Cambridge - Cambridge, United Kingdom
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Oscar of the best picture in 1958 |
Gigi
directed by Vincente Minnelli
with Leslie Caron (Gigi), Maurice Chevallier (Honore Lachaille) and Eva Gabor (Liane d'Exelmans)
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Designed in 1958 |
The Egg Chair
by Arne Jacobsen |
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