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November 8th, 1946...

Today is Friday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Rumors are Flying"
by Frankie Carle

 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Charles Francis Adams

(TIME Cover: November the 4th, 1946)

 Famous people born on the 8th of November:

35 - Nerva, Roman Emperor (d. 98)
1622 - King Charles X of Sweden (d. 1660)
1656 (N.S.) - Edmond Halley, British astronomer and mathematician (d. 1742)
1866 - Herbert Austin, English automobile pioneer (d. 1941)
1893 - Prajadhipok, Rama VII, king of Thailand (d. 1941)
1900 - Margaret Mitchell, American author (d. 1949)
1935 - Alain Delon, French actor
1957 - Porl Thompson, British musician (The Cure)
1968 - Zara Whites, Dutch actress

 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1946


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


     
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)

Designed in 1946

The Radio - Walnut and bakelite
by Charles Eames

 
 
 
     

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