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TIME Magazine: Samuel Insull
(TIME Cover: May the 14th, 1934)
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Famous people born on the 17th of May: |
1866 - Erik Satie, French composer (d. 1925)
1886 - Alfonso XIII of Spain (d. 1941)
1904 - Jean Gabin, French actor (d. 1976)
1959 - Paul Di'Anno, English singer (Iron Maiden)
1961 - Enya, Irish singer and songwriter
1971 - Princess Máxima of the Netherlands
1974 - Andrea Corr, Irish singer (The Corrs)
1982 - Tony Parker, French-American basketball player
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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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