Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Rumors are Flying" by Frankie Carle
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Helen Traubel
(TIME Cover: November the 11th, 1946)
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Famous people born on the 15th of November: |
1316 - John I of France (d. 1316)
1397 - Pope Nicholas V (d. 1455)
1793 - Michel Chasles, French mathematician (d. 1880)
1889 - Manuel II of Portugal (d. 1932)
1895 - Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
1932 - Petula Clark, English singer
1956 - Michael Hampton, American guitarist (Funkadelic)
1967 - François Ozon, French film director
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1946 |
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Hermann Joseph Muller
1890-1967
for the discovery of the production of mutations by means of X-ray irradiation
USA
Indiana University - Bloomington, IN, USA
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Oscar of the best picture in 1946 |
The Best Years of Our Lives
directed by William Wyler
with Fredric March (Al Stephenson) and Harold Russell (Homer Parrish)
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Designed in 1946 |
The Radio - Walnut and bakelite
by Charles Eames |
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