August 25th, 1955

August 25th, 1955...

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Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley & His Comets In the UK: "Rose Marie" by Slim Whitman

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Carmine De Sapio

(TIME Cover: August the 22nd, 1955)

Famous people born on the 25th of August:

1530 - Tsar Ivan IV of Russia (d. 1584)
1772 - King William I of the Netherlands (d. 1843)
1786 - King Ludwig I of Bavaria (d. 1868)
1819 - Allan Pinkerton, American private detective (d. 1884)
1845 - King Ludwig II of Bavaria (d. 1886)
1918 - Leonard Bernstein, American conductor, composer, educator and pianist (d. 1990)
1930 - Sir Sean Connery, British actor
1949 - Gene Simmons, Israeli-born bassist and singer (KISS)
1951 - Rob Halford, English singer (Judas Priest)
1954 - Elvis Costello, English musician
1958 - Tim Burton, American film director, producer, and screenwriter

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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