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June 22nd, 1958...

Today is Sunday !

 
 
 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 22nd of June:

1906 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author and pilot (d. 2001)
1946 - Eliades Ochoa, Cuban guitarist, member of Buena Vista Social Club
1949 - Meryl Streep, American actress
1949 - Lindsay Wagner, American actress (Jaime Sommers)
1953 - Cyndi Lauper, American singer
1957 - Garry Gary Beers, Australian bassist from group INXS
1961 - Jimmy Sommerville, Scottish singer (Bronski Beat, Communards and solo)

 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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