November 12th, 1958

November 12th, 1958...

Today is Wednesday !

Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "It's Only Make Believe" by Conway Twitty In the UK: "It's All In The Game" by Tommy Edwards

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Pope John XXIII

(TIME Cover: November the 10th, 1958)

Famous people born on the 12th of November:

1840 - Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (d. 1917)
1866 - Sun Yat-sen, first President of the Republic of China (d. 1925)
1915 - Roland Barthes, French critic and writer (d. 1980)
1929 - Grace Kelly, Princess Grace of Monaco, American actress (d. 1982)
1936 - Mort Shuman, American songwriter and singer (d. 1991)
1945 - Neil Young, Canadian singer, songwriter, and musician
1961 - Nadia Comaneci, Romanian gymnast

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1958

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

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)

Designed in 1958

The Egg Chair
by Arne Jacobsen

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