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September 23rd, 1938...

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TIME Magazine: William S. Paley

(TIME Cover: September the 19th, 1938)

 Famous people born on the 23rd of September:

480 BC - Euripides, Greek playwright (d. 406 BC)
63 BC - Augustus Caesar, Roman Emperor (d. 14)
1161 - Emperor Takakura of Japan (d. 1181)
1215 - Kublai Khan of the Mongol Empire (d. 1294)
1713 - King Ferdinand VI of Spain (d. 1759)
1740 - Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan (d. 1813)
1771 - Emperor Kokaku of Japan (d. 1840)
1861 - Robert Bosch, German inventor and industrialist (d. 1942)
1920 - Mickey Rooney, American actor
1926 - John Coltrane, American saxophonist (d. 1967)
1930 - Ray Charles, American musician (d. 2004)
1938 - Romy Schneider, Austrian actress (d. 1982)
1943 - Julio Iglesias, Spanish singer
1949 - Bruce Springsteen, American singer and songwriter
1961 - Willie McCool, American astronaut (d. 2003)

 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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