Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Kansas City" by Wilbert Harrison
In the UK:
"A Fool Such As I / I Need Your Love Tonight" by Elvis Presley
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Willy Brandt
(TIME Cover: May the 25th, 1959)
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Famous people born on the 26th of May: |
1264 - Prince Koreyasu, Japanese shogun (d. 1326)
1478 - Pope Clement VII (d. 1534)
1566 - Mehmed III, Ottoman Emperor (d. 1603)
1878 - Isadora Duncan, American dancer (d. 1927)
1926 - Miles Davis, American Jazz musician
1964 - Lenny Kravitz, American guitarist and singer
1968 - Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark
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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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