Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Old Buttermilk Sky" by Kay Kyser
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: George Messersmith
(TIME Cover: December the 2nd, 1946)
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Famous people born on the 20th of December: |
1537 - King John III of Sweden (d. 1592)
1786 - Pietro Raimondi, Italian composer (d. 1853)
1868 - Harvey Firestone, American automobile pioneer (d. 1938)
1945 - Peter George Criscoula, American drummer and singer (KISS)
1946 - Uri Geller, Israeli psychic
1966 - Chris Robinson, American singer (Black Crowes)
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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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