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September 30th, 1940...

Today is Monday !

 
 
 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: Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister

(TIME Cover: September the 30th, 1940)

 Famous people born on the 30th of September:

1207 - Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, Persian mystic and poet (d. 1273)
1227 - Pope Nicholas IV (d. 1292)
1898 - Princess Charlotte of Monaco (d. 1977)
1924 - Truman Capote, American author (d. 1984)
1928 - Elie Wiesel, Romanian Holocaust survivor, author, and lecturer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1945 - Salaheddin Ali Nader Shah Angha, 42nd Present Sufi Master of the Oveyssi-Shahmaghsoudi order
1945 - Ehud Olmert, twelfth Prime Minister of Israel.
1964 - Monica Bellucci, Italian 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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