September 11th, 1958

September 11th, 1958...

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Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "Bel Bu Dipinto Di Blu (Volare)" by Domenico Modugno In the UK: "When" by The Kalin Twins

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Milton Eisenhower

(TIME Cover: September the 8th, 1958)

Famous people born on the 11th of September:

1182 - Minamoto no Yoriie, Japanese shogun (d. 1204)
1524 - Pierre de Ronsard, French poet (d. 1585)
1917 - Ferdinand Marcos, President of the Philippines (d. 1989)
1937 - Queen Paola Ruffo di Calabria of Belgium
1937 - Robert Crippen, American astronaut
1939 - Charles Geschke, American inventor and businessman
1940 - Brian de Palma, American film director
1943 - Mickey Hart, American drummer (Grateful Dead)
1965 - Moby, American musician
1966 - Princess Akishino, Wife of Prince Akishino, Japanese Imperial Family
1977 - Jon Buckland, British guitarist (Coldplay)

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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