July 22nd, 1948 - kakorama

July 22nd, 1948...

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Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "Woody Wood-Pecker" by Kay Kyser

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Howard Hughes

(TIME Cover: July the 19th, 1948)

Famous people born on the 22nd of July:

1478 - King Philip I of Castile (d. 1506)
1519 - Pope Innocent IX (d. 1591)
1887 - Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1975)
1893 - James Whale, English film director (d. 1957)
1898 - Alexander Calder, American artist (d. 1976)
1944 - Estelle Bennett, American singer (Ronettes)
1944 - Rick Davies, British musician (Supertramp)
1947 - Don Henley, American drummer, singer, and songwriter (Eagles)
2002 - Prince Felix of Denmark, Prince of Denmark

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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