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February 8th, 1942...

Today is Sunday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"A String of Pearls"
by Glenn Miller

 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Vice-Admiral Doenitz

(TIME Cover: February the 2nd, 1942)

 Famous people born on the 8th of February:

412 - Proclus, Greek philosopher (d. 487)
1191 - Yaroslav II of Russia (d. 1246)
1291 - King Afonso IV of Portugal (d. 1357)
1700 - Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-born mathematician (d. 1782)
1720 - Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan (d. 1750)
1828 - Jules Verne, French author (d. 1905)
1834 - Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist (d. 1907)
1931 - James Dean, American actor (d. 1955)
1974 - Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, French disc jockey (Daft Punk)

     
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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