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: Earl Warren
(TIME Cover: September the 27th, 1948)
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Famous people born on the 27th of September: |
551 BC - Confucius, Chinese philosopher (d. 479 BC)
1667 - Asano Naganori, Japanese warlord (d. 1701)
1841 - Georges Clemenceau, French politician (d. 1929)
1924 - Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (d. 1996)
1934 - Brigitte Bardot, French actress
1960 - Jennifer Rush, American pop singer
1972 - Dita Von Teese, American burlesque artist
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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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