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July 28th, 1958...

Today is Monday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


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
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Gamal Abdel Nasser

(TIME Cover: July the 28th, 1958)

 Famous people born on the 28th of July:

1904 - Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1990)
1907 - Earl Tupper, American inventor (d. 1983)
1929 - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States (d. 1994)
1938 - Alberto Fujimori, President of Peru
1943 - Richard Wright English musician (Pink Floyd)
1954 - Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela

 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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