October 8th, 1955

October 8th, 1955...

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Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "Love is a Many-Splendored Thing" by Four Aces In the UK: "Rose Marie" by Slim Whitman

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Casey Stengel

(TIME Cover: October the 3rd, 1955)

Famous people born on the 8th of October:

1895 - Zog I, King of Albania (d. 1961)
1918 - Jens Christian Skou, Danish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1920 - Frank Herbert, American writer (d. 1986)
1939 - Paul Hogan, Australian actor
1941 - Jesse Jackson, American clergyman and civil rights activist
1949 - Sigourney Weaver, American actress
1950 - Robert Kool Bell, American musician (Kool & the Gang)
1968 - Leeroy Thornhill, British musician (The Prodigy)
1970 - Matt Damon, American actor

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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