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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: Luis Munoz Marin
(TIME Cover: June the 23rd, 1958)
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Famous people born on the 25th of June: |
1852 - Antoni Gaudí, Catalan architect (d. 1926)
1858 - Georges Courteline, French dramatist (d. 1929)
1903 - George Orwell (pen name of Eric Arthur Blair), British writer (d. 1950)
1924 - Sidney Lumet, American actor
1928 - Peyo, Belgian illustrator (d. 1992)
1944 - Robert Charlebois, Canadian singer
1963 - George Michael, British singer
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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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