| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"The Happy Organ" by Dave 'Baby' Cortez
In the UK:
"A Fool Such As I / I Need Your Love Tonight" by Elvis Presley
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Famous people born on the 17th of May: |
1866 - Erik Satie, French composer (d. 1925)
1886 - Alfonso XIII of Spain (d. 1941)
1904 - Jean Gabin, French actor (d. 1976)
1959 - Paul Di'Anno, English singer (Iron Maiden)
1961 - Enya, Irish singer and songwriter
1971 - Princess Máxima of the Netherlands
1974 - Andrea Corr, Irish singer (The Corrs)
1982 - Tony Parker, French-American basketball player
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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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