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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 4th of January: |
1077 - Emperor Zhezong of Song Dynasty in China (d. 1100)
1643 - Sir Isaac Newton, English mathematician and natural philosopher (d. 1727)
1710 - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian composer (d. 1736)
1809 - Louis Braille, French inventor of Braille (d. 1852)
1900 - James Bond, American ornithologist (d. 1989)
1905 - Sterling Holloway, American actor (d. 1992)
1940 - Brian David Josephson, Nobel laureate
1940 - Gao Xingjian, Nobel laureate
1945 - Richard R. Schrock, Nobel laureate
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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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