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In the USA:
"Mack the Knife" by Bobby Darin
In the UK:
"Travellin' Light" by Cliff Richard & The Shadows
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Sam Huff
(TIME Cover: November the 30th, 1959)
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Famous people born on the 4th of December: |
1849 - Crazy Horse, Oglala Sioux chief (d. 1877)
1866 (O.S.) - Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-born painter (d. 1944)
1892 - Francisco Franco, dictator of Spain (d. 1975)
1940 - John Cale, Welsh musician (The Velvet Underground)
1944 - Dennis Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys) (d. 1983)
1963 - Sergei Bubka, Ukrainian pole vaulter
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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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