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 29th of December: |
1709 - Empress Elizabeth of Russia (d. 1762)
1721 - Madame de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV of France (d. 1764)
1808 - Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States (d. 1875)
1914 - Albert Tucker, Australian artist (d. 1999)
1931 - Prince Gu of Korea (d. 2005)
1946 - Marianne Faithfull, British singer
1954 - Prince Takamado of Japan (d. 2002)
1972 - Evan Seinfeld, American musician (Biohazard) and actor
1994 - Princess Kako of Akishino of Japan
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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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