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July 14th, 1936...

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TIME Magazine: Joe DiMaggio, New York Yankees

(TIME Cover: July the 13th, 1936)

 Famous people born on the 14th of July:

1610 - Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1670)
1857 - Emmeline Pankhurst, English suffragette (d. 1928)
1862 - Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter and graphic artist (d. 1918)
1874 - Khedive Abbas II of Egypt (d. 1944)
1885 - King Sisavang Vong of Laos (d. 1959)
1913 - Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr., 38th President of the United States
1918 - Ingmar Bergman, Swedish film and theatre director
1919 - Lino Ventura, Italian-born actor (d. 1987)
1942 - Javier Solana, Spanish European Union foreign policy chief
1965 - Igor Khoroshev, Russian keyboard player (Yes)
1977 - Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden

 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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