| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"The Gypsy" by The Ink Spots
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Famous people born on the 30th of June: |
1470 - Charles VIII of France (d. 1498)
1917 - Susan Hayward, American actress (d. 1975)
1943 - Florence Ballard, American singer (The Supremes) (d. 1976)
1953 - Hal Lindes, English-American musician (Dire Straits)
1959 - Brendan Perry, English musician (Dead Can Dance)
1966 - Mike Tyson, American boxer
1975 - Ralf Schumacher, German race car driver
1982 - Andy Knowles, English musician (Franz Ferdinand)
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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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