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January 15th, 1941...

Today is Wednesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Frenesi"
by Artie Shaw

 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Jesse H. Jones

(TIME Cover: January the 13th, 1941)

 Famous people born on the 15th of January:

1342 - Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1404)
1432 - King Afonso V of Portugal (d. 1481)
1481 - Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shogun (b. 1511)
1622 - Molière, French playwright (d. 1673)
1809 - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French anarchist (d. 1865)
1906 - Aristotle Onassis, Greek businessman (d. 1975)
1909 - Jean Bugatti, German-born automobile designer (d. 1939)
1918 - Gamal Abdal Nasser, President of Egypt (d. 1970)
1929 - Martin Luther King Jr, American civil rights leader, Nobel laureate (d. 1968)
1950 - Marius Trésor, French footballer
1975 - Mary Pierce, American tennis player

     
Oscar of the best picture in 1941

How Green Was My Valley
directed by John Ford
with Donald Crisp (Mr. Morgan) and Sara Allgood (Mrs. Morgan)

Designed in 1941

The Table lamp
by Paavo Tynell

 
 
 
     

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