December 21st, 1940

December 21st, 1940...

Today is Saturday !

Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "Frenesi" by Artie Shaw

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Sidney Hillman

(TIME Cover: December the 2nd, 1940)

Famous people born on the 21st of December:

1921 - Vampira (Maila Nurmi), Finnish-born actress
1937 - Jane Fonda, American actress and activist
1940 - Frank Zappa, American singer, guitarist and composer (d. 1993)
1942 - Hu Jintao, President of the People's Republic of China
1946 - Carl Wilson, American singer and guitarist (The Beach Boys) (d. 1998)
1954 - Chris Evert, American tennis player
1969 - Julie Delpy, French actress

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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