Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend)" by Vaughn Monroe
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Milton Berle
(TIME Cover: May the 16th, 1949)
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Famous people born on the 16th of May: |
1611 - Pope Innocent XI (d. 1689)
1905 - Henry Fonda, American actor (d. 1982)
1955 - Hazel O'Connor, British singer
1966 - Janet Jackson, American singer
1970 - Gabriela Sabatini, Argentine tennis player
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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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