Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"I Can Dream, Can't I?" by The Andrews Sisters
In the UK:
"Hop Scotch Polka" by Billy Whitlock
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Mark III
(TIME Cover: January the 23rd, 1950)
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Famous people born on the 25th of January: |
750 - Leo IV the Khazar, Byzantine Emperor
1794 - François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist (d. 1878)
1882 - Virginia Woolf, English writer (d. 1941)
1917 - Ilya Prigogine, Russian-born physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 2003)
1955 - Terry Chimes, co-founder and drummer of the British punk rock band The Clash
1981 - Alicia Keys, American singer and musician
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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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