kakorama: a ride into the past
 

 

December 3rd, 1950...

Today is Sunday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"The Thing"
by Phil Harris

In the UK:
"Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer"
by Eve Young & The Homesteaders
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Hopalong Cassidy

(TIME Cover: November the 27th, 1950)

 Famous people born on the 3rd of December:

1368 - King Charles VI of France (d. 1422)
1596 - Nicolo Amati, Italian violin maker (d. 1684)
1857 - Joseph Conrad, Polish-born British writer (d. 1924)
1884 - Rajendra Prasad, first President of India (d. 1963)
1895 - Anna Freud, Austrian-born British psychoanalyst (d. 1982)
1911 - Nino Rota, Italian composer (d. 1979)
1930 - Jean-Luc Godard, French film director
1934 - Viktor Gorbatko, Soviet cosmonaut
2005 - Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway

 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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