Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Mack the Knife" by Bobby Darin
In the UK:
"Mack The Knife" by Bobby Darin
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Harold Macmillian
(TIME Cover: October the 19th, 1959)
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Famous people born on the 28th of October: |
1793 - Eliphalet Remington, American firearms manufacturer (d. 1861)
1885 (O.S.) - Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet (d. 1922)
1909 - Francis Bacon, Anglo-Irish painter (d. 1992)
1941 - Hank Marvin, English guitarist
1955 - Bill Gates, American software pioneer
1956 - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran
1963 - Eros Ramazzotti, Italian singer
1967 - Julia Roberts, American actres
1967 - Sophie, Hereditary Princess of Liechtenstein
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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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