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July 4th, 1941...

Today is Friday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"My Sister and I"
by Jimmy Dorsey

 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Marshal Timoshenko

(TIME Cover: June the 30th, 1941)

 Famous people born on the 4th of July:

1330 - Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Japanese shogun (d. 1367)
1546 - Murat III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1595)
1799 - King Oscar I of Sweden, French general (d. 1859)
1907 - Gordon Griffith, American director (d. 1958)
1918 - Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, Tongan king (d. 2006)
1927 - Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress
1973 - Michael Johnson, England-born Jamaican 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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