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 25th of July: |
1109 - Afonso I of Portugal (d. 1185)
1562 - Kiyomasa Kato, Japanese warlord (d. 1611)
1870 - Maxfield Parrish, American illustrator (d. 1966)
1901 - Lila Lee, American actress (d. 1973)
1946 - Rita Marley, Jamaican-Cuban singer
1967 - Matt LeBlanc, American actor
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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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