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July 30th, 1934...

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TIME Magazine: James A Farley

(TIME Cover: July the 30th, 1934)

 Famous people born on the 30th of July:

1470 - Hongzhi, Emperor of China (d. 1505)
1549 - Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1609)
1863 - Henry Ford, American industrialist (d. 1947)
1926 - Christine McGuire, American singer (The McGuire Sisters)
1939 - Peter Bogdanovich, American film director
1941 - Paul Anka, Canadian singer and composer
1947 - Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-born American actor, body builder, and Governor of California
1958 - Kate Bush, British musician
1963 - Lisa Kudrow, American actress

 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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