Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"The Purple People Eater" by Sheb Wooley
In the UK:
"Who's Sorry Now" by Connie Francis
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Michael Stepovich
(TIME Cover: June the 9th, 1958)
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Famous people born on the 10th of June: |
1213 - Fakhruddin 'Iraqi, Persian philosopher
1819 - Gustave Courbet, French painter (d. 1877)
1897 - Grand Duchess Tatiana of Russia (d. 1918)
1922 - Judy Garland, American musical actress (d. 1969)
1923 - Robert Maxwell, Slovakian-born newspaperman (d. 1991)
1982 - Princess Madeleine of Sweden
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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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