Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Ballad of Davy Crockett" by Bill Hayes
In the UK:
"Give Me Your Word" by Tennessee Ernie Ford
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Chiang Kai-shek
(TIME Cover: April the 18th, 1955)
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Famous people born on the 22nd of April: |
1451 - Queen Isabella of Castile and Leon (d. 1504)
1610 - Pope Alexander VIII (d. 1691)
1724 - Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (d. 1804)
1766 - Madame de Staël, French author (d. 1817)
1870 (N.S.) - Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary (d. 1924)
1899 - Vladimir Nabokov, Russian writer (d. 1977)
1916 - Yehudi Menuhin, American-born violinist (d. 1999)
1937 - Jack Nicholson, American actor
1971 - Daisuke Enomoto, first Japanese space tourist
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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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