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: George Messersmith
(TIME Cover: December the 2nd, 1946)
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Famous people born on the 3rd of December: |
1368 - King Charles VI of France (d. 1422)
1596 - Nicolo Amati, Italian violin maker (d. 1684)
1857 - Joseph Conrad, Polish-born British writer (d. 1924)
1884 - Rajendra Prasad, first President of India (d. 1963)
1895 - Anna Freud, Austrian-born British psychoanalyst (d. 1982)
1911 - Nino Rota, Italian composer (d. 1979)
1930 - Jean-Luc Godard, French film director
1934 - Viktor Gorbatko, Soviet cosmonaut
2005 - Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway
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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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