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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Famous people born on the 29th of May: |
1630 - Charles II of England (d. 1685)
1917 - John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (d. 1963)
1940 - Farooq Leghari, President of Pakistan
1945 - Gary Brooker, Singer, pianist and songwriter (Procol Harum)
1956 - LaToya Jackson, American musician
1967 - Noel Gallagher, English musician (Oasis)
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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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