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April 24th, 1950...

Today is Monday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"If I Knew You Were Comin' (I'd've Baked a Cake)"
by Eileen Barton

In the UK:
"(If I Knew You Were Comin') I'd've Baked A Cake"
by Eve Young & The Homesteaders
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Betty Hutton

(TIME Cover: April the 24th, 1950)

 Famous people born on the 24th of April:

1533 - William I of Orange (d. 1584)
1934 - Shirley MacLaine, American actress and author
1942 - Barbra Streisand, American singer/actress
1952 - Jean-Paul Gaultier, French fashion designer
1954 - Captain Sensible, British guitarist (The Damned)
1957 - Boris Williams, British musician (The Cure)

 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1950


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


     
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)

Designed in 1950

The Chair, Model No. 132U
by Donald Knorr

 
 
 
     

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