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July 4th, 1950...

Today is Tuesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"The Third Man Theme"
by Anton Karas

In the UK:
"My Foolish Heart"
by Billy Eckstine
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: William J. Levitt

(TIME Cover: July the 3rd, 1950)

 Famous people born on the 4th of July:

1330 - Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Japanese shogun (d. 1367)
1546 - Murat III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1595)
1799 - King Oscar I of Sweden, French general (d. 1859)
1907 - Gordon Griffith, American director (d. 1958)
1918 - Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, Tongan king (d. 2006)
1927 - Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress
1973 - Michael Johnson, England-born Jamaican footballer

 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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