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In the USA:
"Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" by The Platters
In the UK:
"The Day The Rains Came" by Jane Morgan
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Fidel Castro
(TIME Cover: January the 26th, 1959)
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Famous people born on the 30th of January: |
133 - Marcus Severus Didius Julianus, Roman Emperor (d. 193)
1841 - Félix Faure, 6th President of the French Third Republic (d. 1899)
1882 - Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd. President of the United States (d. 1945)
1894 - King Boris III of Bulgaria (d. 1943)
1927 - Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1986)
1941 - Dick Cheney, 46th Vice President of the United States
1951 - Phil Collins, English musician
1962 - Abdullah II of Jordan
1968 - Prince Felipe of Spain
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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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