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November 22nd, 1949...

Today is Tuesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"That Lucky Old Sun"
by Frankie Laine

 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Robert M. Hutchins

(TIME Cover: November the 21st, 1949)

 Famous people born on the 22nd of November:

1602 - Elisabeth of France, Queen of Philip IV of Spain (d. 1644)
1808 - Thomas Cook, British travel entrepreneur (d. 1892)
1869 - André Gide, French writer and Nobel laureate (d. 1951)
1890 - Charles de Gaulle, President of France (d. 1970)
1932 - Robert Vaughn, American actor
1946 - Aston Barrett, Jamaican musician (The Wailers Band)
1950 - Tina Weymouth, American musician (Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club)
1958 - Jamie Lee Curtis, American actress
1961 - Randal L. Schwartz, American computer programmer
1967 - Boris Becker, German tennis player

 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1949


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


     
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)

Designed in 1949

The JG chair
by Ray Komai

 
 
 
     

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