August 30th, 1942

August 30th, 1942...

Today is Sunday !

Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "Jingle Jangle Jingle" by Kay Kyser

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Jawaharlal Nehru

(TIME Cover: August the 24th, 1942)

Famous people born on the 30th of August:

1377 - Shah Rukh, ruler of Persia and Transoxonia (d. 1447)
1748 - Jacques-Louis David, French painter (d. 1825)
1871 - Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand-born Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (d. 1937)
1937 - Bruce McLaren, New Zealand car racer, designer, and manufacturer (d. 1970)
1962 - Alexander Litvinenko, British citizen, ex-KGB colonel and ex-FSB lieutenant-colonel (d.2006)
1972 - Cameron Diaz, American actress

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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