kakorama: a ride into the past
 

 

April 6th, 1955...

Today is Wednesday !

 
 
 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
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Ngo Dinh Diem

(TIME Cover: April the 4th, 1955)

 Famous people born on the 6th of April:

1483 - Raphael, Italian painter and architect (d. 1520)
1671 - Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet (d. 1741)
1820 - Nadar, French photographer (d. 1910)
1903 - Doc Edgerton, American electrical engineer (d. 1990)
1928 - James D. Watson, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1965 - Frank Black, American singer/songwriter (Pixies)

 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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