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April 3rd, 1950...

Today is Monday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Music! Music! Music!"
by Teresa Brewer

In the UK:
"Music! Music! Music!"
by Teresa Brewer
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: King Phumiphon

(TIME Cover: April the 3rd, 1950)

 Famous people born on the 3rd of April:

1245 - King Philip III of France (d. 1285)
1367 - King Henry IV of England (d. 1413)
1924 - Marlon Brando, American actor (d. 2004)
1924 - Doris Day, American actress
1930 - Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of Germany
1961 - Eddie Murphy, American actor and comedian

 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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