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In the USA:
"The Battle of New Orleans" by Johnny Horton
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: Charles Halleck
(TIME Cover: June the 8th, 1959)
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Famous people born on the 11th of June: |
1864 - Richard Strauss, German composer and conductor (d. 1949)
1910 - Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French explorer and inventor (d. 1997)
1928 - Fabiola de Mora y Aragón, Queen of the Belgians
1964 - Jean Alesi, French Formula One driver
1965 - Joey Santiago, Filipino guitarist (Pixies)
1968 - Prince Alois of Liechtenstein, Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein
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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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