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October 1st, 1955...

Today is Saturday !

 
 
 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: Gamal Abdel Nasser

(TIME Cover: September the 26th, 1955)

 Famous people born on the 1st of October:

1207 - King Henry III of England (d. 1272)
1471 - King Frederick I of Denmark (d. 1533)
1685 - Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1740)
1730 - Richard Stockton, American attorney, signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1781)
1903 - Vladimir Horowitz, Ukrainian pianist (d. 1989)
1910 - Bonnie Parker, American outlaw (d. 1934)
1924 - James Earl Carter, Jr., 39th President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1930 - Philippe Noiret, French actor (d. 2006)
1959 - Youssou N'Dour, Senegalese singer

 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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