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:
"(If I Knew You Were Comin') I'd've Baked A Cake" by Eve Young & The Homesteaders
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Betty Hutton
(TIME Cover: April the 24th, 1950)
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Famous people born on the 27th of April: |
1701 - King Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia (d. 1773)
1822 - Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States (d. 1885)
1891 - Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer (d. 1953)
1899 - Walter Lantz, American cartoonist, creator of Woody Woodpecker (d. 1994)
1948 - Kate Pierson, American singer (The B-52's)
1967 - Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
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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 |
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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 |
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The Chair, Model No. 132U
by Donald Knorr |
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