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TIME Magazine: Helen Hull Jacobs
(TIME Cover: September the 14th, 1936)
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Famous people born on the 17th of September: |
879 - King Charles III of France (d. 929)
1192 - Minamoto no Sanetomo Japanese shogun (d. 1219)
1271 - Wenceslas II of Bohemia and Poland (d. 1305)
1550 - Pope Paul V (d. 1621)
1743 - Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician (d. 1794)
1854 - David Dunbar Buick, American automobile pioneer (d.1929)
1860 - Billy the Kid (d. 1881)
1930 - Thomas Stafford, American astronaut
1965 - Yuji Naka, Japanese video game programmer
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1936 |
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Victor Franz Hess
1883-1964
for his discovery of cosmic radiation
Austria
Innsbruck University - Innsbruck, Austria
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Oscar of the best picture in 1936 |
The Great Ziegfeld
directed by Robert Z. Leonard
with Luise Rainer (Anna Held)
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Designed in 1936 |
The Cradle
by Jean Prouvé |
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