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TIME Magazine: James A Farley
(TIME Cover: October the 31st, 1932)
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Famous people born on the 31st of October: |
1345 - King Fernando I of Portugal (d. 1383)
1391 - King Duarte of Portugal (d. 1438)
1424 - King Wladislaus III of Poland (d. 1444)
1632 - (baptism) Johannes Vermeer, Flemish painter (d. 1675)
1705 - Pope Clement XIV (d. 1774)
1860 - Juliette Low, American founder of the Girl Scouts (d. 1927)
1887 - Chiang Kai-shek, Nationalist Chinese leader, former Republic of China president (d. 1975)
1922 - King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia
1930 - Michael Collins, astronaut
1936 - Michael Landon, American actor (d. 1991)
1952 - Bernard Edwards, American bass player (CHIC) (d. 1996)
1961 - Larry Mullen, Irish drummer (U2)
1966 - Adam Horovitz, American singer (Beastie Boys)
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1932 |
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Werner Karl Heisenberg
1901-1976
for the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has, inter alia, led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen
Germany
Leipzig University - Leipzig, Germany
Photo: nobelprize.org
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The Coat stand, model no. B132
by Emile Guyot |
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