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February 15th, 1941...

Today is Saturday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Frenesi"
by Artie Shaw

 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Anton J. Carlson

(TIME Cover: February the 10th, 1941)

 Famous people born on the 15th of February:

1471 - Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (d. 1503)
1564 - Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and physicist (d. 1642)
1710 - King Louis XV of France (d. 1774)
1723 - John Witherspoon, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1794)
1809 - Cyrus McCormick, American inventor (d. 1884)
1882 - John Barrymore, American actor (d. 1942)
1944 - Mick Avory, British drummer (The Kinks)
1945 - John Helliwell, British musician (Supertramp)
1946 - Marisa Berenson, American actress
1959 - Ali Campbell, British musician (UB40)

     
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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