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September 12th, 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: Joe Martin

(TIME Cover: September the 9th, 1940)

 Famous people born on the 12th of September:

1492 - Lorenzo II de' Medici, Duke of Urbino (d. 1519)
1494 - King Francis I of France (d. 1547)
1888 - Maurice Chevalier, French singer and actor (d. 1972)
1897 - Irene Joliot-Curie, French physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1956)
1931 - Sir Ian Holm, English actor
1944 - Barry White, American singer (d. 2003)
1968 - Ler LaLonde, American Guitarist (Primus)

     
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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