Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White" by Pérez Prado
In the UK:
"Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White" by Perez Prado
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Claire McCardell
(TIME Cover: May the 2nd, 1955)
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Famous people born on the 3rd of May: |
612 - Constantine III, Byzantine Emperor (d. 641)
1826 - Charles, Crown Prince of Sweden-Norway (d. 1872)
1886 - Marcel Dupré, French composer (d. 1971)
1898 - Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1978)
1933 - Steven Weinberg, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1961 - Joe Murray, Cartoonist
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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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