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September 21st, 1959...

Today is Monday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Sleep Walk"
by Santo & Johnny

In the UK:
"Only Sixteen"
by Craig Douglas
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Henry Moore

(TIME Cover: September the 21st, 1959)

 Famous people born on the 21st of September:

1328 - Hongwu Emperor of China (d. 1398)
1415 - Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1493)
1428 - Jingtai Emperor of China (d. 1457)
1840 - Murad V, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1904)
1842 - Abd-ul-Hamid II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1918)
1866 - H. G. Wells, English writer (d. 1946)
1931 - Larry Hagman, American actor
1934 - Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer and songwriter
1941 - R. James Woolsey, Jr., CIA director
1947 - Stephen King, American author
1947 - Don Felder, American guitarist (Eagles)
1951 - Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen rebel leader (d. 2005)
1957 - Ethan Coen, American film director
1972 - Liam Gallagher, British singer (Oasis)

 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1959


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


     
Oscar of the best picture in 1959

Ben-Hur
directed by William Wyler
with Charlton Heston (Judah Ben-Hur) and Hugh Griffith (Sheik Ilderim)

Designed in 1959

The Orange slice
by Pierre Paulin

 
 
 
     

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