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In the USA:
"Tequila" by The Champs
In the UK:
"Magic Moments" by Perry Como
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Lyndon B. Johnson
(TIME Cover: March the 17th, 1958)
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Famous people born on the 19th of March: |
1434 - Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1443)
1900 - Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1958)
1933 - Philip Roth, American author
1936 - Ursula Andress, Swiss actress
1943 - Mario Monti, Italian politician
1947 - Glenn Close, American actress
1955 - Bruce Willis, American actor
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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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