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May 31st, 1958...

Today is Saturday !

 
 
 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: Charles De Gaulle

(TIME Cover: May the 26th, 1958)

 Famous people born on the 31st of May:

1048 - Omar Khayyám, Persian philosopher (d. 1131)
1469 - King Manuel I of Portugal (d. 1521)
1557 - Feodor I, Tsar of Russia (d. 1598)
1640 - Michal Wisniowiecki, King of Poland (d. 1673)
1857 - Pope Pius XI (d. 1939)
1923 - Prince Rainier III of Monaco (d. 2005)
1930 - Clint Eastwood, American actor
1945 - Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German film director (d. 1982)
1948 - John Bonham, British musician (Led Zeppelin) (d. 1980)
1964 - Darryl McDaniels, American musician (Run-D.M.C.)
1965 - Brooke Shields, American model
1967 - Sandrine Bonnaire, French actress

 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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