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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 27th of September: |
551 BC - Confucius, Chinese philosopher (d. 479 BC)
1667 - Asano Naganori, Japanese warlord (d. 1701)
1841 - Georges Clemenceau, French politician (d. 1929)
1924 - Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (d. 1996)
1934 - Brigitte Bardot, French actress
1960 - Jennifer Rush, American pop singer
1972 - Dita Von Teese, American burlesque artist
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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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