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TIME Magazine: Fulgencio Batista
(TIME Cover: April the 26th, 1937)
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Famous people born on the 27th of April: |
1701 - King Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia (d. 1773)
1822 - Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States (d. 1885)
1891 - Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer (d. 1953)
1899 - Walter Lantz, American cartoonist, creator of Woody Woodpecker (d. 1994)
1948 - Kate Pierson, American singer (The B-52's)
1967 - Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1937 |
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Albert von Szent-Györgyi Nagyrapolt
1893-1986
for his discoveries in connection with the biological combustion processes, with special reference to vitamin C and the catalysis of fumaric acid
Hungary
Szeged University - Szeged, Hungary
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Oscar of the best picture in 1937 |
The Life of Emile Zola
directed by William Dieterle
with Paul Muni (emile Zola) and Joseph Schildkraut (Captain Alfred Dreyfus)
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Designed in 1937 |
The Hassock for Wingspread
by Frank Lloyd Wright |
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