Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"That Lucky Old Sun" by Frankie Laine
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Judge Harold Medina
(TIME Cover: October the 24th, 1949)
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Famous people born on the 29th of October: |
1017 - Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1056)
1917 - Eddie Constantine, American actor/singer (d. 1993)
1930 - Niki de Saint Phalle, French sculptor (d. 2002)
1955 - Roger O'Donnell, English musician (The Cure)
1971 - Winona Ryder, American actress
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1949 |
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Hideki Yukawa
1907-1981
for his prediction of the existence of mesons on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces
Japan
Kyoto Imperial University - Kyoto, Japan; Columbia University - New York, NY, USA
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Oscar of the best picture in 1949 |
All the King's Men
directed by Robert Rossen
with Broderick Crawford (Willie Stark) and Mercedes McCambridge (Sadie Burke)
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Designed in 1949 |
The JG chair
by Ray Komai |
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