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TIME Magazine: Edouard Daladier
(TIME Cover: June the 5th, 1939)
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Famous people born on the 6th of June: |
1436 - Regiomontanus, German mathematician (d. 1476)
1502 - King John III of Portugal (d. 1557)
1599 - Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (d. 1660)
1606 - Pierre Corneille, French dramatist (d. 1684)
1714 - King Joseph I of Portugal (d. 1777)
1872 - Tsarina Alexandra of Russia (d. 1918)
1934 - King Albert II of Belgium
1952 - Yukihiro Takahashi, Japanese musician and singer (Yellow Magic Orchestra)
1956 - Björn Borg, Swedish tennis player
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1939 |
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Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt
1903-1995
for his work on sex hormones
Germany
Berlin University - Berlin, Germany
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Oscar of the best picture in 1939 |
Gone with the Wind
directed by Victor Fleming
with Clark Gable (Rhett Butler) and Vivien Leigh (Scarlett O'Hara)
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Designed in 1939 |
The PH lamp
by Poul Henningsen |
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