Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"The Three Bells" by The Browns
In the UK:
"Living Doll" by Cliff Richard & The Drifters
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Rocky Colavito
(TIME Cover: August the 24th, 1959)
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Famous people born on the 28th of August: |
1025 - Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan (d. 1068)
1582 (O.S.) - Taichang Emperor, of the Ming dynasty of China (d. 1620)
1749 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and scientist (d. 1832)
1828 (O.S.) - Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer (d. 1910)
1903 - Bruno Bettelheim, American psychologist (d. 1990)
1942 - Sterling Morrison, American guitarist (The Velvet Underground) (d. 1995)
1943 - David Soul, American actor
1999 - Prince Nikolai of Denmark, Prince of Denmark
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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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