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July 28th, 1955...

Today is Thursday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Rock Around the Clock"
by Bill Haley & His Comets

In the UK:
"Dreamboat"
by Alma Cogan
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Nikolai Bulganin

(TIME Cover: July the 25th, 1955)

 Famous people born on the 28th of July:

1904 - Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1990)
1907 - Earl Tupper, American inventor (d. 1983)
1929 - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States (d. 1994)
1938 - Alberto Fujimori, President of Peru
1943 - Richard Wright English musician (Pink Floyd)
1954 - Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela

 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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