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April 14th, 1934...

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TIME Magazine: Vincent Astor

(TIME Cover: April the 9th, 1934)

 Famous people born on the 14th of April:

1336 - Emperor Go-Kogon of Japan (d. 1374)
1578 - King Philip III of Spain (d. 1621)
1741 - Emperor Momozono of Japan (d. 1762)
1866 - Anne Sullivan, Helen Keller's teacher (d. 1936)
1942 - Valentin Lebedev, cosmonaut
1974 - Da Brat, American rapper

 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1934


Harold Clayton Urey
1893-1981

for their discovery of heavy hydrogen

USA
Columbia University - New York, NY, USA



Photo: nobelprize.org


     
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)

Designed in 1934

The Zig-Zag chair
by Gerrit Rietveld

 
 
 
     

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