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: John Jay McCloy
(TIME Cover: June the 20th, 1949)
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Famous people born on the 26th of June: |
1819 - Abner Doubleday, Major General, United States Army and purported inventor of baseball (d. 1893)
1899 - Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
1909 - Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley's manager (d. 1997)
1925 - Pavel Belyayev, cosmonaut (d. 1970)
1955 - Mick Jones, British guitarist (The Clash and Big Audio Dynamite)
1956 - Chris Isaak, American singer
1957 - Patty Smyth, American singer (Scandal)
1969 - Colin Greenwood, British musician (Radiohead)
2005 - Princess Alexia of the Netherlands
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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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