August 27th, 1936...

Today is Thursday !

TIME Magazine: General Franco, General Mola and President Azana

(TIME Cover: August the 24th, 1936)

1407 - Ashikaga Yoshikazu, Japanese shogun (d. 1425)
1770 - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher (d. 1831)
1890 - Man Ray, photographer and artist (d. 1976)
1908 - Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States (d. 1973)
1915 - Norman F. Ramsey, Nobel Prize laureate
1959 - Gerhard Berger, Austrian race car driver
1976 - Carlos Moya, Spanish tennis player

Victor Franz Hess
1883-1964

for his discovery of cosmic radiation

Austria
Innsbruck University - Innsbruck, Austria

Photo: nobelprize.org