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June 16th, 1958...

Today is Monday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"The Purple People Eater"
by Sheb Wooley

In the UK:
"Who's Sorry Now"
by Connie Francis
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Jean Thorn

(TIME Cover: June the 16th, 1958)

 Famous people born on the 16th of June:

1139 - Emperor Konoe of Japan (d. 1155)
1612 - Murad IV, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1640)
1644 - Henrietta Anne Stuart, Princess of Scotland, England and Ireland and Duchess of Orléans (d. 1670)
1829 - Geronimo, Apache leader (d. 1909)
1858 - King Gustaf V of Sweden (d. 1950)
1941 - Aldrich Ames, CIA officer and spy for the Soviet Union
1953 - Ian Mosley, British drummer (Marillion)

 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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