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February 18th, 1941...

Today is Tuesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Frenesi"
by Artie Shaw

 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Sir Andrew Cunningham

(TIME Cover: February the 17th, 1941)

 Famous people born on the 18th of February:

1516 - Queen Mary I of England (d. 1558)
1530 - Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1578)
1898 - Enzo Ferrari, Italian race car driver (d. 1988)
1903 - Nikolai Podgorny, President of the Soviet Union (d. 1983)
1932 - Milos Forman, Czech film director
1933 - Yoko Ono, Japanese-born singer
1947 - Princess Christina of the Netherlands
1954 - John Travolta, American actor
1973 - Claude Makélélé, French footballer

     
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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