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August 22nd, 1940...

Today is Thursday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"I'll Never Smile Again"
by Tommy Dorsey

 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: William A. White

(TIME Cover: August the 19th, 1940)

 Famous people born on the 22nd of August:

1647 - Denis Papin, French physicist, mathematician, and inventor (d. c. 1712)
1834 - Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer, physicist, inventor, aviation pioneer (d. 1906)
1854 - Milan I, King of Serbia (d. 1901)
1862 - Claude Debussy, French composer (d. 1918)
1893 - Dorothy Parker, American writer, humorist (d. 1967)
1904 - Deng Xiaoping, leader of the People's Republic of China (d. 1997)
1932 - Gerald P. Carr, American astronaut
1947 - Donna Godchaux, singer (Grateful Dead)
1961 - Roland Orzabal, singer and guitarist (Tears for Fears)
1963 - Tori Amos, American singer, songwriter, and pianist
1973 - Howie Dorough, American singer (Backstreet Boys)

     
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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