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:
"Silver Dollar (Roll, Roll, Roll)" by Eve Young & The Homesteaders
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Famous people born on the 13th of September: |
1087 - John II Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1143)
1739 - Grigori Potemkin, Russian statesman (d. 1791)
1916 - Roald Dahl, Welsh writer (d. 1990)
1924 - Maurice Jarre, French composer
1931 - Barbara Bain, American actress
1944 - Jacqueline Bisset, British actress
1952 - Randy Jones, American musician, The Village People
1967 - Tim Owens, American singer, Iced Earth, ex-Judas Priest
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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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