Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"The Gypsy" by The Ink Spots
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Roger D. Lapham
(TIME Cover: July the 15th, 1946)
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Famous people born on the 19th of July: |
1814 - Samuel Colt, American firearms inventor (d. 1862)
1893 - Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian poet (d. 1930)
1946 - Ilie Nastase, Romanian tennis player
1947 - Bernie Leadon, American musician (The Eagles)
1947 - Brian May, English guitarist (Queen)
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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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