Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Come Softly to Me" by The Fleetwoods
In the UK:
"It Doesn't Matter Anymore" by Buddy Holly
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: James Van Allen
(TIME Cover: May the 4th, 1959)
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Famous people born on the 7th of May: |
1833 - Johannes Brahms, German composer (d. 1897)
1840 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (d. 1893)
1892 - Josip Broz Tito, President of Yugoslavia (d. 1980)
1901 - Gary Cooper, American actor (d. 1961)
1969 - Eagle Eye Cherry, Swedish musician
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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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