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July 10th, 1942...

Today is Friday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Sleepy Lagoon"
by Harry James

 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: The American Flag

(TIME Cover: July the 6th, 1942)

 Famous people born on the 10th of July:

1419 - Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (d. 1471)
1452 - King James III of Scotland (d. 1488)
1830 - Camille Pissarro, French painter (d. 1903)
1832 - Alvan Graham Clark, American telescope maker and astronomer (d. 1897)
1856 - Nikola Tesla, Croatian Serb inventor (d. 1943)
1871 - Marcel Proust, French writer (d. 1922)
1942 - Pyotr Klimuk, cosmonaut

     
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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