Number-one song in the charts today |
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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 8th of October: |
1895 - Zog I, King of Albania (d. 1961)
1918 - Jens Christian Skou, Danish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1920 - Frank Herbert, American writer (d. 1986)
1939 - Paul Hogan, Australian actor
1941 - Jesse Jackson, American clergyman and civil rights activist
1949 - Sigourney Weaver, American actress
1950 - Robert Kool Bell, American musician (Kool & the Gang)
1968 - Leeroy Thornhill, British musician (The Prodigy)
1970 - Matt Damon, American actor
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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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