kakorama: a ride into the past
 

 

May 3rd, 1959...

Today is Sunday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Come Softly to Me"
by The Fleetwoods

In the UK:
"It Doesn't Matter Anymore"
by Buddy Holly
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Christian Herter

(TIME Cover: April the 27th, 1959)

 Famous people born on the 3rd of May:

612 - Constantine III, Byzantine Emperor (d. 641)
1826 - Charles, Crown Prince of Sweden-Norway (d. 1872)
1886 - Marcel Dupré, French composer (d. 1971)
1898 - Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1978)
1933 - Steven Weinberg, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1961 - Joe Murray, Cartoonist

 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1959


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


     
Oscar of the best picture in 1959

Ben-Hur
directed by William Wyler
with Charlton Heston (Judah Ben-Hur) and Hugh Griffith (Sheik Ilderim)

Designed in 1959

The Orange slice
by Pierre Paulin

 
 
 
     

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