November 18th, 1938

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November 18th, 1938...

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TIME Magazine: Henry G. Weaver

(TIME Cover: November the 14th, 1938)

Famous people born on the 18th of November:

1772 - Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, German prince (d. 1806)
1787 - Louis-Jacques Daguerre, French inventor and photographer (d. 1851)
1856 - Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov, Grand Duke of Russia (d. 1929)
1907 - Compay Segundo, Cuban musician (Buena Vista Social Club) (d. 2003)
1923 - Alan Shepard, American astronaut (d. 1998)
1940 - Qaboos ibn Sa’id, Sultan of Oman
1942 - Linda Evans, American actress
1960 - Kim Wilde, British singer
1962 - Kirk Hammett, American guitarist (Metallica)

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1938

Enrico Fermi
1901-1954

for his demonstrations of the existence of new radioactive elements produced by neutron irradiation, and for his related discovery of nuclear reactions brought about by slow neutrons

Italy
Rome University - Rome, Italy

Photo: nobelprize.org

Oscar of the best picture in 1938

You Can't Take It with You
directed by Frank Capra
with Spring Byington (Penny Sycamore)

Designed in 1938

The Ankle-strap sandal
by Salvatore Ferragamo

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