Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Oh! What It Seemed to Be" by Frankie Carle
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Laurence Olivier
(TIME Cover: April the 8th, 1946)
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Famous people born on the 14th of April: |
1336 - Emperor Go-Kogon of Japan (d. 1374)
1578 - King Philip III of Spain (d. 1621)
1741 - Emperor Momozono of Japan (d. 1762)
1866 - Anne Sullivan, Helen Keller's teacher (d. 1936)
1942 - Valentin Lebedev, cosmonaut
1974 - Da Brat, American rapper
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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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