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April 9th, 1936...

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 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Mayor Daniel W. Hoan

(TIME Cover: April the 6th, 1936)

 Famous people born on the 9th of April:

1821 - Charles Baudelaire, French poet (d. 1867)
1835 - King Léopold II of Belgium (d. 1909)
1908 - Victor Vasarely, Hungarian-born painter (d. 1997)
1932 - Cheeta, animal actor, the longest living known chimpanzee in history
1933 - Jean-Paul Belmondo, French actor
1979 - Albert Hammond, Jr., American guitarist in NYC-based band The Strokes

 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1936


Victor Franz Hess
1883-1964

for his discovery of cosmic radiation

Austria
Innsbruck University - Innsbruck, Austria



Photo: nobelprize.org


     
Oscar of the best picture in 1936

The Great Ziegfeld
directed by Robert Z. Leonard
with Luise Rainer (Anna Held)

Designed in 1936

The Cradle
by Jean Prouvé

 
 
 
     

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