Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"The Third Man Theme" by Anton Karas
In the UK:
"Bewitched (Bothered and Bewildered)" by Doris Day & Mel Torme
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: William J. Levitt
(TIME Cover: July the 3rd, 1950)
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Famous people born on the 12th of July: |
100 BC - Julius Caesar, Roman military and political leader (d. 44 BC)
1394 - Ashikaga Yoshinori, Japanese shogun (d. 1441)
1596 - Tsar Michael I of Russia (d. 1645)
1824 - Eugène Boudin, French painter (d. 1898)
1870 - Louis II of Monaco (d. 1949)
1884 - Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor (d. 1920)
1904 - Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
1937 - Bill Cosby, American comedian and 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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