May 8th, 1938...

Today is Sunday !

TIME Magazine: Claude Pepper

(TIME Cover: May the 2nd, 1938)

1828 - Jean Henri Dunant, Founder of the Red Cross; Nobel laureate (d. 1910)
1884 - Harry S. Truman, President of the United States (d. 1972)
1906 - Roberto Rossellini, Italian director (d. 1977)
1914 - Romain Gary, Polish writer (d. 1980)
1917 - Papa John Creach, American musician (Jefferson Airplane) (d. 1994)
1945 - Keith Jarrett, American musician
1951 - Chris Frantz, American musician (Talking Heads)
1953 - Alex Van Halen, Dutch drumme
1964 - Melissa Gilbert, American actress (Laura Ingalls in The Little House in the Country)
1975 - Enrique Iglesias, Spanish singer

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

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