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February 28th, 1942...

Today is Saturday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Moonlight Cocktail"
by Glenn Miller

 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Reinhard Heydrick

(TIME Cover: February the 23rd, 1942)

 Famous people born on the 28th of February:

1533 - Michel de Montaigne, French writer and philosopher (d. 1592)
1820 - John Tenniel, English illustrator (d. 1914)
1823 - Ernest Renan, French philosopher (d. 1892)
1903 - Vincente Minnelli, American director (d. 1986)
1926 - Svetlana Alliluyeva, Soviet defector, daughter of Joseph Stalin
1942 - Brian Jones, English musician (The Rolling Stones) (d. 1969)

     
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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