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October 22nd, 1955...

Today is Saturday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Love is a Many-Splendored Thing"
by Four Aces

In the UK:
"The Man From Laramie"
by Jimmy Young
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Ed Sullivan

(TIME Cover: October the 17th, 1955)

 Famous people born on the 22nd of October:

1197 - Emperor Juntoku of Japan (d. 1242)
1511 - Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1553)
1688 - Nadir Shah of Persia (d. 1747)
1689 - King John V of Portugal (d. 1750)
1811 - Franz Liszt, Hungarian pianist and composer (d. 1886)
1903 - George Wells Beadle, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 1989)
1913 - Bao Dai, Emperor of Vietnam (d. 1997)
1938 - Christopher Lloyd, American actor
1943 - Catherine Deneuve, French actress
1968 - Shaggy, Jamaican musician

 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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