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: James B. Conant
(TIME Cover: September the 23rd, 1946)
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Famous people born on the 28th of September: |
1601 - King Louis XIII of France (d. 1643)
1907 - Bhagat Singh, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1931)
1920 - William Conrad, American actor (d. 1994)
1922 - Arthur Penn, American director
1947 - Liz Torres, American actress and singer
1952 - Dumitru Prunariu, Romanian cosmonaut
1976 - Francesco Totti, Italian footballer
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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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