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TIME Magazine: James A Farley
(TIME Cover: July the 30th, 1934)
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Famous people born on the 2nd of August: |
1696 - Mahmud I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1754)
1834 - Frédéric Bartholdi, French sculptor (d. 1904)
1868 - King Constantine I of Greece (d. 1923)
1939 - Wes Craven, American film director
1942 - Isabel Allende, Chilean author
1960 - Neal Morse, American singer, guitarist and keyboardist (Spock's Beard and Transatlantic)
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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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