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April 4th, 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: General Douglas MacArthur

(TIME Cover: March the 30th, 1942)

 Famous people born on the 4th of April:

186 - Caracalla, Roman emperor (d. 217)
1819 - Queen Maria II of Portugal (d. 1853)
1846 - Comte de Lautréamont, French writer (d. 1870)
1914 - Marguerite Duras, French writer (d. 1996)
1922 - Elmer Bernstein, American composer (d. 2004)
1932 - Anthony Perkins, American actor (d. 1992)
1945 - Daniel Cohn-Bendit, French political activis

     
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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