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July 19th, 1942...

Today is Sunday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Jingle Jangle Jingle"
by Kay Kyser

 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Field Marshal Rommel

(TIME Cover: July the 13th, 1942)

 Famous people born on the 19th of July:

1814 - Samuel Colt, American firearms inventor (d. 1862)
1893 - Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian poet (d. 1930)
1946 - Ilie Nastase, Romanian tennis player
1947 - Bernie Leadon, American musician (The Eagles)
1947 - Brian May, English guitarist (Queen)

     
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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