August 5th, 1942 - kakorama

August 5th, 1942...

Today is Wednesday !

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: General Itagaki

(TIME Cover: August the 3rd, 1942)

Famous people born on the 5th of August:

1850 - Guy de Maupassant, French author (d. 1893)
1862 - Joseph Merrick, The Elephant Man (d. 1890)
1906 - John Huston, American director (d. 1987)
1930 - Neil Armstrong, astronaut
1939 - Princess Irene of the Netherlands
1972 - Christian Olde Wolbers, Belgian bassist (Fear Factory)

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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