Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Let Me Go, Lover" by Joan Weber
In the UK:
"Finger Of Suspicion" by Dickie Valentine
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Grace Kelly
(TIME Cover: January the 31st, 1955)
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Famous people born on the 3rd of February: |
1809 - Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (d. 1847)
1898 - Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect (d. 1976)
1904 - Pretty Boy Floyd, American gangster (d. 1934)
1909 - Simone Weil, French philosopher (d. 1943)
1947 - Paul Auster, American novelist
1959 - Laurence Tolhurst, British musician (The Cure)
1959 - Yasuharu Konishi, Japanese musician, composer and DJ (Pizzicato Five)
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1955 |
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Willis Eugene Lamb
1913-
for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum
USA
Stanford University - Stanford, CA, USA
Photo: nobelprize.org
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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)
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Designed in 1955 |
The Lounge chair
by Herbert Hirche |
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