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June 8th, 1942...

Today is Monday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Tangerine"
by Jimmy Dorsey

 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Lord Louis Mountbatten

(TIME Cover: June the 8th, 1942)

 Famous people born on the 8th of June:

1671 - Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer (d. 1751)
1810 - Robert Schumann, German composer (d. 1856)
1903 - Marguerite Yourcenar, French author (d. 1987)
1940 - Nancy Sinatra, American singer
1960 - Mick Hucknall, English singer and songwriter (Simply Red)
1962 - Nick Rhodes, English musician (Duran Duran)
1976 - Lindsay Davenport, American tennis legend
1983 - Nadia Petrova, Russian tennis player

     
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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