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May 4th, 1941...

Today is Sunday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Amapola (Pretty Little Poppy)"
by Jimmy Dorsey

 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Sir Percy Noble

(TIME Cover: April the 28th, 1941)

 Famous people born on the 4th of May:

1008 - Khajeh Abdollah Ansari The Persian Sufi (d. 1088)
1008 - King Henry I of France (d. 1060)
1654 - Kangxi Emperor of China (d. 1722)
1852 - Alice Pleasance Liddell, English schoolgirl model for Alice in Wonderland (d. 1934)
1929 - Audrey Hepburn, Belgian actress (d. 1993)
1954 - Pia Zadora, American actres
1958 - Keith Haring, American graphical artist (d. 1990)

     
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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