Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy" by Red Foley
In the UK:
"The Harry Lime Theme" by Anton Karas
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Glenn McCarthy
(TIME Cover: February the 13th, 1950)
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Famous people born on the 18th of February: |
1516 - Queen Mary I of England (d. 1558)
1530 - Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1578)
1898 - Enzo Ferrari, Italian race car driver (d. 1988)
1903 - Nikolai Podgorny, President of the Soviet Union (d. 1983)
1932 - Milos Forman, Czech film director
1933 - Yoko Ono, Japanese-born singer
1947 - Princess Christina of the Netherlands
1954 - John Travolta, American actor
1973 - Claude Makélélé, French footballer
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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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