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In the USA:
"Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" by The Platters
In the UK:
"One Night / I Got Stung" by Elvis Presley
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Famous people born on the 2nd of February: |
1455 - King John of Denmark (d. 1513)
1649 - Pope Benedict XIII (d. 1730)
1754 - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French politician (d. 1838)
1882 - James Joyce, Irish author (d. 1941)
1926 - Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, French politician
1947 - Farrah Fawcett, American actress
1977 - Shakira, Colombian singer
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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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