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In the USA:
"Venus" by Frankie Avalon
In the UK:
"Side Saddle" by Russ Conway
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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 29th of March: |
1790 - John Tyler, 10th President of the United States (d. 1862)
1895 - Ernst Jünger, German author (d. 1998)
1918 - Sam Walton, American businessman (d. 1992)
1931 - Aleksei Gubarev, cosmonaut
1943 - Vangelis, Greek musician
1947 - Bobby Kimball, American singer (Toto)
1957 - Christopher Lambert, French actor
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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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