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In the USA:
"Venus" by Frankie Avalon
In the UK:
"As I Love You" by Shirley Bassey
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Warren North
(TIME Cover: March the 9th, 1959)
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Famous people born on the 11th of March: |
1725 - Henry Benedict Stuart, pretender to the throne of Great Britain (d. 1807)
1899 - Frederick IX of Denmark (d. 1972), Danish King
1920 - Nicolaas Bloembergen, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1931 - Rupert Murdoch, Australian-born publisher and entrepreneur
1955 - Nina Hagen, German 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
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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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