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May 18th, 1935...

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TIME Magazine: Senator Harry F. Byrd

(TIME Cover: May the 13th, 1935)

 Famous people born on the 18th of May:

1048 - Omar Khayyám, Persian poet (d. 1131)
1868 - Nikolai Aleksandrovich Romanov , Nicholas II, Last Emperor of Russia. (d. 1918)
1897 - Frank Capra, American producer, director, and writer (d. 1991)
1914 - Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer (d. 1982)
1920 - Pope John Paul II (d. 2005)
1950 - Mark Mothersbaugh, American composer, musician, and singer (Devo)
1960 - Yannick Noah, French tennis player

 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1935


James Chadwick
1891-1974

for the discovery of the neutron

United Kingdom
Liverpool University - Liverpool, United Kingdom



Photo: nobelprize.org


     
Oscar of the best picture in 1935

Mutiny on the Bounty
directed by Frank Lloyd
with Clark Gable, Charles Laughton and Fanchot Tone

Designed in 1935

The Anglepoise lamp
by Georges Carwardine

 
 
 
     

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