Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Hard Headed Woman/Don't Ask Me Why" by Elvis Presley
In the UK:
"All I Have To Do Is Dream / Claudette (tied for one week)" by The Everly Brothers
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Robert Preston
(TIME Cover: July the 21st, 1958)
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Famous people born on the 23rd of July: |
645 - Yazid I, Sixth caliph of Islam (d. 683)
1339 - King Louis I of Naples (d. 1384)
1626 - Sabbatai Zevi, Ottoman Jewish religious leader
1649 - Pope Clement XI (d. 1721)
1865 - Max Heindel, Danish Christian occultist, astrologer, and mystic (d. 1919)
1931 - Te Atairangi Kaahu, Mori Queen (d. 2006)
1961 - Martin Gore, English musician and songwriter (Depeche Mode)
1965 - Slash, English-born guitarist (Guns N' Roses)
1973 - Monica Lewinsky, White House intern
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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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