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In the USA:
"Venus" by Frankie Avalon
In the UK:
"Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" by The Platters
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Michiko Shoda
(TIME Cover: March the 23rd, 1959)
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Famous people born on the 25th of March: |
1297 - Andronicus III Palaeologus, Eastern Roman Emperor (d. 1341)
1479 - Vasili III, Grand Prince of Moscow (d. 1533)
1541 - Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1587
1881 - Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer (d. 1945)
1921 - Simone Signoret, French actress (d. 1985)
1942 - Aretha Franklin, American singer
1943 - Paul Michael Glaser, American actor
1947 - Elton John, English singer and songwriter
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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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