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: Raymond Loewy
(TIME Cover: October the 31st, 1949)
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Famous people born on the 1st of November: |
846 - Louis the Stammerer, King of West Francia (d. 879)
1778 - Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (d. 1837)
1878 - Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1959)
1946 - Ric Grech, English rock bassist (Family, Ginger Baker's Air Force, Traffic) (d. 1990)
1951 - Ronald Bell, American singer and saxophonist (Kool & the Gang)
1962 - Anthony Kiedis, American singer (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
1967 - Tina Arena, Australian singer
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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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