May 12th, 1942 - kakorama

May 12th, 1942...

Today is Tuesday !

Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "Tangerine" by Jimmy Dorsey

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Maxim Litvinoff

(TIME Cover: May the 11th, 1942)

Famous people born on the 12th of May:

1401 - Emperor Shoko of Japan (d. 1428)
1496 - Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1560)
1590 - Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1621)
1670 - Frederick Augustus I of Poland (d. 1733)
1845 - Gabriel Fauré, French composer (d. 1924)
1907 - Katharine Hepburn, American actress (d. 2003)
1918 - Julius Rosenberg, American spy (d. 1953)
1936 - Frank Stella, American painter

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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