Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Mack the Knife" by Bobby Darin
In the UK:
"Only Sixteen" by Craig Douglas
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Edward Cole
(TIME Cover: October the 5th, 1959)
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Famous people born on the 6th of October: |
1289 - King Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (d. 1306)
1773 - King Louis-Philippe of France (d. 1850)
1887 - Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (d. 1965)
1888 - Roland Garros, French pilot (d. 1918)
1908 - Sergei Lvovich Sobolev, Russian mathematician (d. 1989)
1930 - Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (d. 2000)
1950 - Thomas McClary, American guitarist (Commodores)
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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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