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May 16th, 1958...

Today is Friday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"All I Have to Do Is Dream/Claudette"
by Everly Brothers

In the UK:
"Whole Lotta Woman"
by Marvin Rainwater
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Harlow Curtice, Henry Ford and Lester Colbert

(TIME Cover: May the 12th, 1958)

 Famous people born on the 16th of May:

1611 - Pope Innocent XI (d. 1689)
1905 - Henry Fonda, American actor (d. 1982)
1955 - Hazel O'Connor, British singer
1966 - Janet Jackson, American singer
1970 - Gabriela Sabatini, Argentine tennis player

 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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