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: Clarence K. Streit
(TIME Cover: March the 27th, 1950)
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Famous people born on the 29th of March: |
1790 - John Tyler, 10th President of the United States (d. 1862)
1895 - Ernst Jünger, German author (d. 1998)
1918 - Sam Walton, American businessman (d. 1992)
1931 - Aleksei Gubarev, cosmonaut
1943 - Vangelis, Greek musician
1947 - Bobby Kimball, American singer (Toto)
1957 - Christopher Lambert, French 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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