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November 16th, 1950...

Today is Thursday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Goodnight, Irene"
by Gordon Jenkins and The Weavers

In the UK:
"Goodnight Irene"
by Frank Sinatra & Jo Stafford
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: George and John Hartford

(TIME Cover: November the 13th, 1950)

 Famous people born on the 16th of November:

42 BC - Tiberius, Roman emperor (d. 37)
1836 - David Kalakaua of Hawaii, Hawaiian king (d. 1891)
1922 - José Saramago, Portuguese writer, Nobel laureate
1930 - Salvatore Riina Sicilian mafioso
1952 - Shigeru Miyamoto, Japanese video game designer
1964 - Diana Krall, Canadian singer

 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1950


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


     
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)

Designed in 1950

The Chair, Model No. 132U
by Donald Knorr

 
 
 
     

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