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January 14th, 1942...

Today is Wednesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Chattanooga Choo Choo"
by Glenn Miller

 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Sir Henry H. Pownall

(TIME Cover: January the 12th, 1942)

 Famous people born on the 14th of January:

1702 - Nakamikado Emperor of Japan (d. 1737)
1836 - Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter (d. 1904)
1861 - Mehmed VI, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1926)
1875 - Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1965)
1941 - Faye Dunaway, American actress

     
Oscar of the best picture in 1942

Mrs. Miniver
directed by William Wyler
with Walter Pidgeon (Clem Miniver) and Greer Garson (Kay Miniver)

Designed in 1942

The Stool
by Mogens Lassen

 
 
 
     

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