Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"It's All in the Game" by Tommy Edwards
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: Renata Tebaldi
(TIME Cover: November the 3rd, 1958)
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Famous people born on the 8th of November: |
35 - Nerva, Roman Emperor (d. 98)
1622 - King Charles X of Sweden (d. 1660)
1656 (N.S.) - Edmond Halley, British astronomer and mathematician (d. 1742)
1866 - Herbert Austin, English automobile pioneer (d. 1941)
1893 - Prajadhipok, Rama VII, king of Thailand (d. 1941)
1900 - Margaret Mitchell, American author (d. 1949)
1935 - Alain Delon, French actor
1957 - Porl Thompson, British musician (The Cure)
1968 - Zara Whites, Dutch actress
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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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