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July 21st, 1942...

Today is Tuesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Jingle Jangle Jingle"
by Kay Kyser

 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Dmitri Shostakovich

(TIME Cover: July the 20th, 1942)

 Famous people born on the 21st of July:

356 BC - Alexander the Great
1414 - Pope Sixtus IV (d. 1484)
1899 - Ernest Hemingway, American writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1961)
1948 - Cat Stevens, English singer
1951 - Robin Williams, American comedian
1961 - 'Big' Jim Martin, American musician (Faith No More)

     
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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