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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: Queen Juliana
(TIME Cover: September the 6th, 1948)
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Famous people born on the 8th of September: |
828 - Ali al-Hadi, Shia Imam (d. 868)
1157 - King Richard I of England (d. 1199)
1207 - King Sancho II of Portugal (d. 1248)
1633 - Ferdinand IV of Germany (d. 1654)
1841 - Antonín Dvorák, Czech composer (d. 1904
1852 - Emperor Gwangmu of Korea (d. 1919)
1887 - Prince George of Yugoslavia (d. 1972)
1918 - Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
1945 - Ron Pigpen McKernan, American musician (the Grateful Dead) (d. 1973)
1947 - Benjamin Orr, American bass guitar player (The Cars) (d. 2000)
1979 - Pink, American singer
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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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