Number-one song in the charts today |
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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 |
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TIME Magazine: Democratic Hopefuls
(TIME Cover: November the 24th, 1958)
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Famous people born on the 24th of November: |
1655 - Charles XI of Sweden (d. 1697)
1784 - Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States (d. 1850)
1864 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (d. 1901)
1884 - Itzhak Ben-Zvi, President of Israel (d. 1963)
1897 - Lucky Luciano, American gangster (d. 1962)
1941 - Donald 'Duck' Dunn, American musician, Booker T. and the M.G.'s
1954 - Emir Kusturica, serbian filmmake
1962 - John Squire, British guitarist (The Stone Roses)
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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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