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September 29th, 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: Sir Oliver Franks

(TIME Cover: September the 26th, 1949)

 Famous people born on the 29th of September:

106 BC - Pompey the Great, consul of Rome (d. 48 BC)
1547 - Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish author (d. 1616)
1703 - François Boucher, French painter (d. 1770)
1864 - Alexandra Kitchin, British model for Lewis Carroll (d. 1925)
1901 - Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1954)
1912 - Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director
1932 - Robert Benton, American screenwriter and director
1935 - Jerry Lee Lewis, American musician
1936 - Silvio Berlusconi, former Prime Minister of Italy
1943 - Lech Walesa, President of Poland, Nobel Peace Prize winner
1951 - Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile

 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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