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September 5th, 1959...

Today is Saturday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"The Three Bells"
by The Browns

In the UK:
"Living Doll"
by Cliff Richard & The Drifters
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: James Hoffa

(TIME Cover: August the 31st, 1959)

 Famous people born on the 5th of September:

1187 - Louis VIII of France (d. 1226)
1638 - Louis XIV of France (d. 1715)
1847 - Jesse James, American outlaw (d. 1882)
1929 - Andrian Nikolayev, cosmonaut
1942 - Raquel Welch, American actress
1946 - Freddie Mercury, Zanzibar-born singer and songwriter (Queen) (d. 1991)
1973 - Rose McGowan, Italian-born actress

 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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