Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)" by David Seville and The Chipmunks
In the UK:
"It's Only Make Believe" by Conway Twitty
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Mao Tse-Tung
(TIME Cover: December the 1st, 1958)
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Famous people born on the 2nd of January: |
1642 - Mehmed IV, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1693)
1827 - Peter Semenov of Tian Shan, Russian explorer (d. 1914)
1920 - Isaac Asimov, Russian-born author (d. 1992)
1936 - Roger Miller, American singer (d. 1992)
1954 - Dawn Silva, American singer (The Brides of Funkenstein, P-Funk)
1960 - Naoki Urasawa, Japanese manga author
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1959 |
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Severo Ochoa
1905-1993
with Arthur Kornberg, for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid
USA
New York University, College of Medicine - New York, NY, USA
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Oscar of the best picture in 1959 |
Ben-Hur
directed by William Wyler
with Charlton Heston (Judah Ben-Hur) and Hugh Griffith (Sheik Ilderim)
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Designed in 1959 |
The Orange slice
by Pierre Paulin |
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