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February 26th, 1948...

Today is Thursday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover"
by Art Mooney

 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Karl Marx

(TIME Cover: February the 23rd, 1948)

 Famous people born on the 26th of February:

1361 - Wenceslaus, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia (d. 1419)
1802 - Victor Hugo, French writer (d. 1885)
1829 - Levi Strauss, German-born clothing designer (d. 1902)
1846 - Buffalo Bill, American pioneer, officer, and hunter (d. 1917)
1861 - King Ferdinand of Bulgaria (d. 1948)
1908 - Tex Avery, American cartoonist (d. 1980)
1909 - King Talal of Jordan (d. 1972)
1928 - Fats Domino, American musician
1928 - Anatoli Filipchenko, cosmonaut
1958 - Michel Houellebecq, French novelist

 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1948


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


     
Oscar of the best picture in 1948

Hamlet
directed by Laurence Olivier
with Laurence Olivier (Hamlet) and Jean Simmons (Ophelia)

Designed in 1948

The Revolving Chair, model no. 4876
by Edward Wormley

 
 
 
     

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