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September 21st, 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: Thurgood Marshall

(TIME Cover: September the 19th, 1955)

 Famous people born on the 21st of September:

1328 - Hongwu Emperor of China (d. 1398)
1415 - Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1493)
1428 - Jingtai Emperor of China (d. 1457)
1840 - Murad V, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1904)
1842 - Abd-ul-Hamid II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1918)
1866 - H. G. Wells, English writer (d. 1946)
1931 - Larry Hagman, American actor
1934 - Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer and songwriter
1941 - R. James Woolsey, Jr., CIA director
1947 - Stephen King, American author
1947 - Don Felder, American guitarist (Eagles)
1951 - Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen rebel leader (d. 2005)
1957 - Ethan Coen, American film director
1972 - Liam Gallagher, British singer (Oasis)

 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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