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TIME Magazine: Harry L. Hopkins
(TIME Cover: February the 19th, 1934)
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Famous people born on the 21st of February: |
1688 - Queen Ulrike Eleonora of Sweden (d. 1741)
1728 - Tsar Peter III of Russia, husband of Catherine the Great (d. 1762)
1875 - Jeanne Calment, French supercentenarian (d. 1997
1885 - Sacha Guitry, Russian dramatist (d. 1957)
1927 - Hubert de Givenchy, French fashion designer
1933 - Nina Simone, American singer (d. 2003)
1937 - King Harald V of Norway
1949 - Jerry Harrison, American musician (Talking Heads)
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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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