Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"If I Knew You Were Comin' (I'd've Baked a Cake)" by Eileen Barton
In the UK:
"Music! Music! Music!" by Teresa Brewer
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Eddie Rickenbacker
(TIME Cover: April the 17th, 1950)
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Famous people born on the 17th of April: |
1734 - Taksin, King of Thailand (d. 1782)
1837 - J.P. Morgan, American financier and philanthropist (d. 1913)
1894 - Nikita Khrushchev, Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1971)
1918 - William Holden, American actor (d. 1981)
1946 - Georges J.F. Kohler, German biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1995)
1959 - Sean Bean, English 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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