Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Sleep Walk" by Santo & Johnny
In the UK:
"Only Sixteen" by Craig Douglas
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Henry Moore
(TIME Cover: September the 21st, 1959)
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Famous people born on the 24th of September: |
15 - Vitellius, Roman Emperor (d. 69)
1501 - Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician (d. 1576)
1534 - Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (d. 1581)
1724 - Sir Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (d. 1803)
1857 - Richard Mansfield, German-born actor (d. 1907)
1911 - Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet premier (d. 1985)
1930 - John W. Young, American astronaut
1951 - Pedro Almodóvar, Spanish movie director
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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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