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June 18th, 1942...

Today is Thursday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Tangerine"
by Jimmy Dorsey

 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Lieutenant General Somervell

(TIME Cover: June the 15th, 1942)

 Famous people born on the 18th of June:

1517 - Emperor Ogimachi of Japan (d. 1593)
1757 - Ignaz Pleyel, Austrian composer and piano manufacturer (d. 1831)
1824 - Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1769)
1901 - Grand Duchess Anastasia Nicolaievna Romanova of Russia (d. 1918)
1918 - Ajahn Chah, Buddhist meditation master
1937 - John D. Rockefeller IV, U.S. Senator
1937 - Vitali Zholobov, cosmonaut
1942 - Paul McCartney, English singer and songwriter (The Beatles)
1952 - Isabella Rossellini, Italian actress
1961 - Alison Moyet, English pop singer

     
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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