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TIME Magazine: Jesse H. Jones
(TIME Cover: January the 22nd, 1934)
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Famous people born on the 26th of January: |
1497 - Emperor Go-Nara of Japan (d. 1557)
1714 - Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (d. 1785)
1857 - the 12th Dalai Lama (d. 1875)
1908 - Stéphane Grappelli, French jazz violinist (d. 1997)
1918 - Nicolae Ceaucescu, Romanian dictator (d. 1989)
1925 - Paul Newman, American actor
1928 - Roger Vadim, French film director and actor (d. 2000)
1955 - Eddie Van Halen, Dutch-born musicia
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1934 |
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Harold Clayton Urey
1893-1981
for their discovery of heavy hydrogen
USA
Columbia University - New York, NY, USA
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Oscar of the best picture in 1934 |
It Happened One Night
directed by Frank Capra
with Clark Gable (Peter Warne) and Claudette Colbert (Ellie Andrews)
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Designed in 1934 |
The Zig-Zag chair
by Gerrit Rietveld |
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