Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Cruising Down the River" by Russ Morgan
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Juan Trippe
(TIME Cover: March the 28th, 1949)
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Famous people born on the 3rd of April: |
1245 - King Philip III of France (d. 1285)
1367 - King Henry IV of England (d. 1413)
1924 - Marlon Brando, American actor (d. 2004)
1924 - Doris Day, American actress
1930 - Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of Germany
1961 - Eddie Murphy, American actor and comedian
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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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