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TIME Magazine: Jean Harlow
(TIME Cover: August the 19th, 1935)
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Famous people born on the 24th of August: |
1198 - King Alexander II of Scotland (d. 1249)
1358 - King John I of Castile (d. 1390)
1772 - King William I of the Netherlands (d. 1840)
1787 - James Weddell, Antarctica explorer (d. 1834)
1865 - King Ferdinand I of Romania (d. 1927)
1899 - Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer (d. 1986)
1929 - Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader (d. 2004)
1947 - Paulo Coelho, Brazilian author
1948 - Jean-Michel Jarre, French musician
1951 - Oscar Hijuelos, Pulitzer Prize winning author
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1935 |
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James Chadwick
1891-1974
for the discovery of the neutron
United Kingdom
Liverpool University - Liverpool, United Kingdom
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Oscar of the best picture in 1935 |
Mutiny on the Bounty
directed by Frank Lloyd
with Clark Gable, Charles Laughton and Fanchot Tone
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Designed in 1935 |
The Anglepoise lamp
by Georges Carwardine |
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