Number-one song in the charts today |
|
In the USA:
"To Each His Own" by Eddy Howard
|
TIME Magazine cover this week |
|
TIME Magazine: Pauline Betz
(TIME Cover: September the 2nd, 1946)
|
Famous people born on the 3rd of September: |
1034 - Emperor Go-Sanjo of Japan (d. 1073)
1875 - Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian automotive engineer (d. 1951)
1928 - Gaston Thorn, President of the European Commission
1942 - Al Jardine, American musician (the Beach Boys)
1953 - Jean-Pierre Jeunet, French film director
1955 - Steve Jones, English musician (Sex Pistols)
|
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1946 |
|
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
|
|
|
|
|
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)
|
Designed in 1946 |
The Radio - Walnut and bakelite
by Charles Eames |
|