Number-one song in the charts today |
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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 5th of February: |
976 - Sanjo, Emperor of Japan (d. 1017)
1840 - John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish inventor (d. 1921)
1878 - André Citroën, French automobile pioneer (d. 1935)
1919 - Andreas Papandreou, Greek politician (d. 1996)
1940 - H.R. Giger, Swiss artist
1945 - Charlotte Rampling, British actress
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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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