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In the USA:
"Goodnight, Irene" by Gordon Jenkins and The Weavers
In the UK:
"Silver Dollar (Roll, Roll, Roll)" by Eve Young & The Homesteaders
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Lucius Clay
(TIME Cover: October the 2nd, 1950)
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Famous people born on the 7th of October: |
1471 - King Frederick I of Denmark and Norway (d. 1533)
1748 - King Charles XIII of Sweden (d. 1818)
1841 - King Nicholas I of Montenegro (d. 1921)
1885 - Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d.1962)
1923 - Jean-Paul Riopelle, Québécois member of Les Automatistes (d. 2002)
1931 - Desmond Tutu, South African archbishop and Nobel Laureate
1939 - John Hopcroft, American computer scientist
1952 - Vladimir Putin, 2nd President of Russia
1968 - Thom Yorke, English singer (Radiohead)
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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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