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 18th of April: |
1480 - Lucrezia Borgia, Florentine ruler and daughter of Pope Alexander VI (d. 1519)
1590 - Ahmed I, Ottoman Emperor (d. 1617)
1905 - George H. Hitchings, American scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998)
1939 - Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran
1969 - Princess Sayako of Japan
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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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