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May 18th, 1958...

Today is Sunday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

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

In the UK:
"Who's Sorry Now"
by Connie Francis
 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 18th of May:

1048 - Omar Khayyám, Persian poet (d. 1131)
1868 - Nikolai Aleksandrovich Romanov , Nicholas II, Last Emperor of Russia. (d. 1918)
1897 - Frank Capra, American producer, director, and writer (d. 1991)
1914 - Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer (d. 1982)
1920 - Pope John Paul II (d. 2005)
1950 - Mark Mothersbaugh, American composer, musician, and singer (Devo)
1960 - Yannick Noah, French 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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