Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Mule Train" by Frankie Laine
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Konrad Adenauer
(TIME Cover: December the 5th, 1949)
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Famous people born on the 21st of December: |
1921 - Vampira (Maila Nurmi), Finnish-born actress
1937 - Jane Fonda, American actress and activist
1940 - Frank Zappa, American singer, guitarist and composer (d. 1993)
1942 - Hu Jintao, President of the People's Republic of China
1946 - Carl Wilson, American singer and guitarist (The Beach Boys) (d. 1998)
1954 - Chris Evert, American tennis player
1969 - Julie Delpy, French 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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