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November 6th, 1940...

Today is Wednesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Only Forever"
by Bing Crosby

 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: King George II

(TIME Cover: November the 4th, 1940)

 Famous people born on the 6th of November:

1494 - Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1566)
1661 - King Charles II of Spain (d. 1700)
1814 - Adolphe Sax, Belgian inventor (d.1894)
1860 - Ignace Paderewski, Polish pianist, composer, and President of Poland (d.1941)
1893 - Edsel Ford, president of Ford Motor Company (d. 1943)
1948 - Glenn Frey, American singer (Eagles)
1970 - Ethan Hawke, American actor

     
Oscar of the best picture in 1940

Rebecca
directed by Alfred Hitchcock
with Laurence Olivier (Maxim de Winter) and Joan Fontaine (Mrs de Winter)

Designed in 1940

The Pelican chair
by Finn Juhl

 
 
 
     

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