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: Paul Tillich
(TIME Cover: March the 16th, 1959)
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Famous people born on the 16th of March: |
1751 - James Madison, 4th President of the United States (d. 1836)
1789 - Georg Simon Ohm, German physicist (d. 1854)
1800 - Emperor Ninko of Japan (d. 1846)
1925 - Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist, co-inventor of the contraceptive pill (d. 2004).
1926 - Jerry Lewis, American comedian
1932 - Walter Cunningham, astronaut
1953 - Isabelle Huppert, French 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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