Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Twelfth Street Rag" by Pee Wee Hunt
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: William C. Menninger
(TIME Cover: October the 25th, 1948)
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Famous people born on the 26th of October: |
1491 - Zhengde, Emperor of China (d. 1521)
1685 - Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer (d. 1757)
1759 - Georges Jacques Danton, French Revolutionary leader (d. 1794)
1802 - King Miguel of Portugal (d. 1866)
1913 - Charlie Barnet, American jazz saxophonist and bandleader (d. 1991)
1916 - François Mitterrand, President of France (d. 1996)
1919 - Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran, Shah of Iran (d. 1980)
1947 - Hillary Rodham Clinton, First Lady of the United States and United States Senator
1959 - Evo Morales, President of Bolivia
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1948 |
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Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius
1902-1971
for his research on electrophoresis and adsorption analysis, especially for his discoveries concerning the complex nature of the serum proteins
Sweden
Uppsala University - Uppsala, Sweden
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Oscar of the best picture in 1948 |
Hamlet
directed by Laurence Olivier
with Laurence Olivier (Hamlet) and Jean Simmons (Ophelia)
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Designed in 1948 |
The Revolving Chair, model no. 4876
by Edward Wormley |
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