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June 6th, 1941...

Today is Friday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Amapola (Pretty Little Poppy)"
by Jimmy Dorsey

 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Admiral Ernest J. King

(TIME Cover: June the 2nd, 1941)

 Famous people born on the 6th of June:

1436 - Regiomontanus, German mathematician (d. 1476)
1502 - King John III of Portugal (d. 1557)
1599 - Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (d. 1660)
1606 - Pierre Corneille, French dramatist (d. 1684)
1714 - King Joseph I of Portugal (d. 1777)
1872 - Tsarina Alexandra of Russia (d. 1918)
1934 - King Albert II of Belgium
1952 - Yukihiro Takahashi, Japanese musician and singer (Yellow Magic Orchestra)
1956 - Björn Borg, Swedish 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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