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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 6th of February: |
1611 - Chongzhen, Emperor of China (d. 1644)
1664 - Mustafa II, Ottoman Sultan (d, 1703)
1665 - Queen Anne of England (d. 1714)
1695 - Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1726)
1911 - Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States (d. 2004)
1917 - Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hungarian actress
1922 - Patrick Macnee, British actor
1932 - François Truffaut, French film director (d. 1984)
1945 - Bob Marley, Jamaican singer and musician (d. 1981)
1962 - Axl Rose, American singer (Guns N' Roses)
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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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