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November 28th, 1959...

Today is Saturday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Mack the Knife"
by Bobby Darin

In the UK:
"Travellin' Light"
by Cliff Richard & The Shadows
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Robert Anderson

(TIME Cover: November the 23rd, 1959)

 Famous people born on the 28th of November:

1632 - Jean-Baptiste Lully, French composer (d. 1687)
1757 - William Blake, British poet and artist (d. 1827)
1820 - Friedrich Engels, German philosopher (d. 1895)
1837 - John Wesley Hyatt, American inventor of celluloid (d. 1920)
1881 - Stefan Zweig, Austrian writer (d. 1942)
1907 - Alberto Moravia, Italian writer (d. 1990)
1908 - Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist
1929 - Berry Gordy Jr., American record company owner and founder of Motown
1949 - Alexander Godunov, Russian composer and ballet dancer (d. 1995)
1962 - Matt Cameron, American drummer (Pearl Jam)

 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1959


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


     
Oscar of the best picture in 1959

Ben-Hur
directed by William Wyler
with Charlton Heston (Judah Ben-Hur) and Hugh Griffith (Sheik Ilderim)

Designed in 1959

The Orange slice
by Pierre Paulin

 
 
 
     

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