October 15th, 1955

October 15th, 1955...

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Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "Yellow Rose of Texas" by Mitch Miller In the UK: "The Man From Laramie" by Jimmy Young

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Richard Nixon

(TIME Cover: October the 10th, 1955)

Famous people born on the 15th of October:

70 BC - Virgil, Roman poet (d. 19 BC)
1542 - Akbar, Jellaladin Mahommed, Mughal Emperor (died 160
1844 - Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (d. 1900)
1893 - King Carol II of Romania (d. 1953)
1915 - Yitzhak Shamir, Israeli politician
1926 - Michel Foucault, French philosopher (d. 1984)
1946 - Richard Carpenter, American musician (Carpenters)
1959 - Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York
1964 - Roberto Vittori, Italian astronaut
1968 - Didier Deschamps, French football player
2005 - Prince Christian of Denmark, Prince of Denmark

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1955

Willis Eugene Lamb
1913-

for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum

USA
Stanford University - Stanford, CA, USA

Photo: nobelprize.org

Oscar of the best picture in 1955

Marty
directed by Delbert Mann
with Ernest Borgnine (Marty Pilletti), Joe Mantell (Angie) and Betsy Blair (Clara Snyder)

Designed in 1955

The Lounge chair
by Herbert Hirche

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