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 9th of September: |
1466 - Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shogun (d. 1523)
1585 - Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman (d. 1642)
1737 - Luigi Galvani, Italian physician and physicist (d. 1798)
1828 (N.S.) - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (d. 1910)
1908 - Cesare Pavese, Italian poet and novelist (d. 1950)
1941 - Otis Redding, American singer and songwriter (d. 1967)
1941 - Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist
1952 - David A. Stewart, English musician (Eurythmics)
1960 - Hugh Grant, British 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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