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September 22nd, 1949...

Today is Thursday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"You're Breaking My Heart"
by Vic Damone

 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Lisa Fonssagrives

(TIME Cover: September the 19th, 1949)

 Famous people born on the 22nd of September:

1606 - Li Zicheng, Chinese rebel (d. 1645)
1791 - Michael Faraday, English scientist (d. 1867)
1829 - Tu Duc, Emperor of Vietnam
1880 - Dame Christabel Pankhurst, English suffragist (d. 1958)
1922 - Chen Ning Yang, Chinese-born physicist, Nobel laureate
1928 - James Lawson, American minister and civil rights activist
1957 - Nick Cave, Australian musician
1958 - Andrea Bocelli, Italian teno
1971 - Princess Märtha Louise of Norway
1976 - Ronaldo, Brazilian footballer

 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1949


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


     
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)

Designed in 1949

The JG chair
by Ray Komai

 
 
 
     

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