Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" by Vaughn Monroe
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Ernest Bevin
(TIME Cover: February the 18th, 1946)
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Famous people born on the 20th of February: |
1888 - Georges Bernanos, French writer (d. 1948)
1901 - Muhammad Naguib, President of Egypt (d. 1984)
1925 - Robert Altman, American film director
1927 - Ibrahim Ferrer, Cuban musician (Buena Vista Social Club) (d. 2005)
1927 - Sidney Poitier, American actor
1966 - Cindy Crawford, American model
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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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