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July 3rd, 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: Franz Halder

(TIME Cover: June the 29th, 1942)

 Famous people born on the 3rd of July:

1423 - King Louis XI of France (d. 1483)
1442 - Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1500)
1883 - Franz Kafka, Czech writer (d. 1924)
1935 - Harrison Schmitt, astronaut
1957 - Laura Branigan, American singer (d. 2004)
1960 - Vince Clarke, British songwriter (Depeche Mode, Yazoo, and Erasure)
1962 - Tom Cruise, American actor

     
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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