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May 5th, 1942...

Today is Tuesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Moonlight Cocktail"
by Glenn Miller

 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Major General Brereton

(TIME Cover: May the 4th, 1942)

 Famous people born on the 5th of May:

867 - Uda, Emperor of Japan (d. 931)
1210 - King Afonso III of Portugal (d. 1279)
1747 - Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1792)
1813 - Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (d. 1855)
1818 - Karl Marx, German political philosopher (d. 1883)
1826 - Empress Eugenie of France, wife of Napoleon III (d. 1920)
1903 - James Beard, American chef and cookbook writer (d. 1985)

     
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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