Find books and music
TIME Magazine cover this week |
|
TIME Magazine: Charles P. Taft
(TIME Cover: August the 3rd, 1936)
|
Famous people born on the 8th of August: |
1079 - Emperor Horikawa of Japan (d. 1107)
1673 - John Ker, Scottish spy (d. 1726)
1879 - Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1919)
1902 - Paul Dirac, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1984)
1937 - Dustin Hoffman, American actor
1988 - Princess Beatrice of York
|
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 |
|