kakorama: a ride into the past
 

 

March 2nd, 1955...

Today is Wednesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Sincerely"
by McGuire Sisters

In the UK:
"Softly Softly"
by Ruby Murray
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Marcos Perez Jimenez

(TIME Cover: February the 28th, 1955)

 Famous people born on the 2nd of March:

1316 - Robert II of Scotland, (d. 1390)
1459 - Pope Adrian VI (d. 1523)
1810 - Pope Leo XIII, (d. 1903)
1876 - Pope Pius XII, (d. 1958)
1900 - Kurt Weill, German composer (d. 1950)
1931 - Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the Soviet Union
1937 - Abdelaziz Bouteflika, President of Algeria
1942 - John Irving, American author
1942 - Lou Reed, American singer and guitarist
1956 - Mark Evans, Australian bassist (AC/DC)
1962 - Jon Bon Jovi, American singer, songwriter, and 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

 
 
 
     

Jump to another date:

    

and click to see what happened:

play crystal ball gazing with the-crystal-ball.com
or translate text into nightingale language on nightingale-song.com
or send singing birthday messages with the kakomessenger
or compose your ringtone for free with the
kakophone machine
 

© Kakophone 2006
Terms of use - Legal information - Webmaster