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:
"Dream Lover" by Bobby Darin
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Columbus Iselin II
(TIME Cover: July the 6th, 1959)
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Famous people born on the 11th of July: |
1274 - Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland (d. 1329)
1366 - Anne of Bohemia, queen of Richard II of England (d. 1394)
1628 - Tokugawa Mitsukuni, Japanese warlord (d. 1701)
1657 - King Frederick I of Prussia (d. 1713)
1767 - John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States (d. 1848)
1844 - King Peter I of Serbia (d. 1921)
1916 - Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)
1920 - Yul Brynner, Russian-born, American actor (d. 1985)
1934 - Giorgio Armani, Italian fashion designer
1957 - Peter Murphy, British musician (Bauhaus)
1959 - Suzanne Vega, American singer
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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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