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May 1st, 1955...

Today is Sunday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White"
by Pérez Prado

In the UK:
"Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White"
by Perez Prado
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Senator Walter George

(TIME Cover: April the 25th, 1955)

 Famous people born on the 1st of May:

1218 - Rudolph I of Germany, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1291)
1804 - Aleksey Khomyakov, Russian poet (d. 1860)
1852 - Calamity Jane, American Wild West performer (d. 1903)
1917 - Danielle Darrieux, French singer and actress
1946 - Joanna Lumley, British actress
1946 - John Woo, Hong Kong director, producer, writer, 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

 
 
 
     

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