Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Witch Doctor" by David Seville
In the UK:
"Whole Lotta Woman" by Marvin Rainwater
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Alec Guinness
(TIME Cover: April the 21st, 1958)
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Famous people born on the 2nd of May: |
1360 - Yongle, Emperor of China (d. 1424)
1660 - Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composer (d. 1725)
1729 - Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia (d.1796)
1935 - Faisal II of Iraq (d. 1958)
1975 - David Beckham, English footballer
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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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