Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"The Battle of New Orleans" by Johnny Horton
In the UK:
"Roulette" by Russ Conway
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Shirley MacLaine
(TIME Cover: June the 22nd, 1959)
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Famous people born on the 28th of June: |
1243 - Emperor Go-Fukakusa of Japan (d. 1304)
1476 - Pope Paul IV (d. 1559)
1491 - King Henry VIII of England (d. 1547)
1577 - Peter Paul Rubens, Belgian painter (d. 1640)
1712 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher (d. 1778)
1926 - Mel Brooks, American filmmaker
1945 - David Knights, bass guitarist (Procul Harum)
1971 - Fabien Barthez, French footballer
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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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