April 29th, 1955 - kakorama

April 29th, 1955...

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Number-one song in the charts today
	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

TIME Magazine: Senator Walter George

(TIME Cover: April the 25th, 1955)

Famous people born on the 29th of April:

534 - Taliesin, the bard, Welsh poet, according to legend in Mabinogion
1854 - Henri Poincaré, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1912)
1899 - Duke Ellington, American jazz pianist and bandleader (d. 1974)
1901 - Hirohito, Emperor of Japan (d. 1989)
1954 - Jerry Seinfeld, American comedian
1958 - Michelle Pfeiffer, American actress
1970 - Andre Agassi, American tennis player
1970 - Uma Thurman, American actress

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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