Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Goodnight, Irene" by Gordon Jenkins and The Weavers
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: Dr. Irving Langmuir
(TIME Cover: August the 28th, 1950)
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Famous people born on the 29th of August: |
1632 - John Locke, English philosopher (d. 1704)
1780 - Jean Ingres, French painter (d. 1867)
1844 - Edward Carpenter, English poet (d. 1929
1915 - Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (d. 1982)
1920 - Charlie Parker, American musician (d. 1955)
1923 - Richard Attenborough, English film director
1958 - Michael Jackson, American singer
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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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