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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: Queen Elizabeth II
(TIME Cover: June the 29th, 1959)
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Famous people born on the 5th of July: |
1717 - Pedro III of Portugal, consort of Maria I of Portugal (d. 1786)
1889 - Jean Cocteau, French writer (d. 1963)
1901 - Sergey Obraztsov, Soviet puppet master (d. 1992)
1911 - Georges Pompidou, President of France (d. 1974)
1950 - Huey Lewis, American musician
1979 - Amélie Mauresmo, French tennis player
1980 - Eva Green, actress
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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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