Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Music! Music! Music!" by Teresa Brewer
In the UK:
"Music! Music! Music!" by Teresa Brewer
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Gregory M. Malenkov
(TIME Cover: March the 20th, 1950)
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Famous people born on the 26th of March: |
1868 - King Fuad I of Egypt (d. 1936)
1925 - Pierre Boulez, French composer and conductor
1935 - Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestine National Authority
1944 - Diana Ross, American singer (Supremes)
1949 - Patrick Süskind, German writer
1963 - Roch Voisine, Canadian singer andsongwriter
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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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