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September 14th, 1955...

Today is Wednesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Yellow Rose of Texas"
by Mitch Miller

In the UK:
"Rose Marie"
by Slim Whitman
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Lieutenant Colonel Paul Stapp

(TIME Cover: September the 12th, 1955)

 Famous people born on the 14th of September:

1486 - Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, German alchemist (d. 1535)
1737 - Michael Haydn, Austrian composer (d. 1806)
1849 - Ivan Pavlov, Russian scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1936)
1898 - Hal B. Wallis, American film producer (d. 1986)
1920 - Alberto Calderón, Argentine mathematician (d. 1998)
1959 - Morten Harket, Norwegian singer (a-ha)
1973 - Nas, American rapper

 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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