Number-one song in the charts today |
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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 14th of March: |
1681 - Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer (d. 1767)
1804 - Johann Strauß, Sr., Austrian composer (d. 1849)
1844 - King Umberto I of Italy (d. 1900)
1879 - Albert Einstein, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
1933 - Quincy Jones, American music producer and composer
1958 - Albert II, Prince of Monaco
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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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