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75 years anniversary | ||||
18 Nov 1949 | Bonnie St Claire [Cornelia Swart]: Dutch singer (Tame me Tiger) | |||
18 Nov 1949 | Ted Sator: Utica, New York -- NHL coach (NY Rangers, Buffalo Sabres) | |||
18 Nov 1949 | NL batting leader (.342) Jackie Robinson wins NL MVP | |||
18 Nov 1949 | WW2 | A Douglas C-47 Globemaster I aircraft of the USAF's MATS landed at RAF Marham, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom after a non-stop flight from the US. It carried a total of 103 passengers and crew, then the largest number of people carried across the North Atlantic in a single flight. | ||
18 Nov 1949 | Ted Sator Utica NY, NHL coach (NY Rangers, Buffalo Sabres) | |||
18 Nov 1949 | Jackie Robinson, Brooklyn Dodgers, named NL's MVP | |||
18 Nov 1949 |
death Frank Baldwin Jewett Died 18 Nov 1949 at age 70 (born 5 Sep 1879). Frank Baldwin Jewett was the U.S. electrical engineer who directed research as the first president of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., (1925-40). Jewett believed that the best science and technology result from bringing together and nurturing the best minds. Under his tenure Bell Labs laid the foundation for a new scientific discipline, radio astronomy, and transformed movies by synchronizing sound to pictures. Bell Labs was the first to transmit television over a long distance in the U.S. and designed the first electrical digital computer. Bell Labs won its first Nobel Prize in physics for fundamental work demonstrating the wave nature of matter. |
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50 years anniversary | ||||
18 Nov 1974 | Autumn Smith: Miss USA-Alabama (1997, top 10) | |||
20 years anniversary | ||||
18 Nov 2004
Robert Bacher |
death Robert Bacher Robert Bacher (b. 1905), nuclear physicist and one of the leaders of the Manhattan Project, Professor and Provost of the California Institute of Technology. |