Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Five Minutes More" by Frank Sinatra
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Josip Broz Tito
(TIME Cover: September the 16th, 1946)
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Famous people born on the 20th of September: |
1853 - Chulalongkorn, Rama V, King of Thailand (d. 1910)
1873 - Sidney Olcott, Canadian film director (d. 1949)
1925 - Ananda Mahidol, King of Thailand (d. 1946)
1934 - Sophia Loren, Italian actress
1941 - Dale Chihuly, American glass artist
1975 - Asia Argento, Italian actress
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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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