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March 6th, 1942...

Today is Friday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Moonlight Cocktail"
by Glenn Miller

 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: General Yamashita

(TIME Cover: March the 2nd, 1942)

 Famous people born on the 6th of March:

1405 - King John II of Castile (d. 1454)
1475 - Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian painter (d. 1564)
1903 - Empress Nagako of Japan (d. 2000)
1928 - Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
1946 - David Gilmour, British musician (Pink Floyd)

     
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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