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August 8th, 1940...
Today is Thursday !
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Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"I'll Never Smile Again" by Tommy Dorsey
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Sir Alan F. Brooke
(TIME Cover: August the 5th, 1940)
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Famous people born on the 8th of August: |
1079 - Emperor Horikawa of Japan (d. 1107)
1673 - John Ker, Scottish spy (d. 1726)
1879 - Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1919)
1902 - Paul Dirac, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1984)
1937 - Dustin Hoffman, American actor
1988 - Princess Beatrice of York
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Oscar of the best picture in 1940 |
Rebecca
directed by Alfred Hitchcock
with Laurence Olivier (Maxim de Winter) and Joan Fontaine (Mrs de Winter)
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Designed in 1940 |
The Pelican chair
by Finn Juhl |
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play crystal ball gazing with the-crystal-ball.com
or translate text into nightingale language on nightingale-song.com
or send singing birthday messages with the kakomessenger
or compose your ringtone for free with the kakophone machine |
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