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In the USA:
"Mule Train" by Frankie Laine
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Konrad Adenauer
(TIME Cover: December the 5th, 1949)
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Famous people born on the 1st of January: |
431 - Pope Alexander VI (d. 1503)
1638 - Emperor Go-Sai of Japan (d. 1685)
1863 - Pierre de Coubertin, French Olympic Games initiator(d. 1937)
1881 - Vajiravudh, King of Thailand (d. 1925)
1883 - Gabrielle Chanel, French Designer (d. 1971)
1919 - J. D. Salinger, American novelist
1945 - Jacky Ickx, Belgian race car driver
1972 - Lilian Thuram, French footballer
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1950 |
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Cecil Frank Powell
1903-1969
for his development of the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and his discoveries regarding mesons made with this method
United Kingdom
Bristol University - Bristol, United Kingdom
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Oscar of the best picture in 1950 |
All about Eve
directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
with George Sanders (Addison De Witt), Anne Baxter (Eve Harrington) and Bette Davis (Margo Channing)
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Designed in 1950 |
The Chair, Model No. 132U
by Donald Knorr |
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