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In the USA:
"Stagger Lee" by Lloyd Price
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: Harry Belafonte
(TIME Cover: March the 2nd, 1959)
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Famous people born on the 5th of March: |
1133 - King Henry II of England (d. 1189)
1324 - King David II of Scotland (d. 1371)
1898 - Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People's Republic of China (d. 1976)
1918 - James Tobin, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)
1942 - Felipe González Márquez, Prime Minister of Spain
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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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