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June 27th, 1948...

Today is Sunday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Nature Boy"
by King Cole

 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Governor James H. Duff

(TIME Cover: June the 21st, 1948)

 Famous people born on the 27th of June:

1040 - King Ladislaus I of Hungary (d. 1095)
1350 - Manuel II Palaeologus, Eastern Roman Emperor
1462 - King Louis XII of France (d. 1515)
1550 - King Charles IX of France (d. 1574)
1880 - Helen Keller, American spokeswoman for the deaf and blind (d. 1968)
1884 - Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher and poet (d. 1962)
1941 - Krzysztof Kieslowski, Polish film director (d. 1996)
1942 - Bruce Johnston, American singer/songwriter, member of The Beach Boys
1955 - Isabelle Adjani, French actress
1985 - Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russian tennis player

 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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