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April 1st, 1948...

Today is Thursday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Mañana (Is Soon Enough for Me)"
by Peggy Lee

 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Robert A. Lovett

(TIME Cover: March the 29th, 1948)

 Famous people born on the 1st of April:

1220 - Emperor Go-Saga of Japan (d. 1272)
1732 - Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (d. 1809)
1815 - Otto von Bismarck, 1st Chancellor of the German Empire (d. 1898)
1868 - Edmond Rostand, French dramatist (d. 1918)
1873 (N.S.) - Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer, pianist, and conductor (d. 1943)
1929 - Milan Kundera, Czech writer
1933 - Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1948 - Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican musician
1983 - Franck Ribery, French footballer

 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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