Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"White Christmas" by Bing Crosby
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: James F. Byrnes
(TIME Cover: January the 11th, 1943)
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Famous people born on the 13th of January: |
1334 - King Henry II of Castile (d. 1379)
1927 - Sydney Brenner, British Nobel Laureate
1948 - Gaj Singh, Maharaja of Jodhpur
1954 - Trevor Rabin, South African guitarist (Yes)
1958 - Andrew Stanton, American actor and director
1970 - Marco Pantani, Italian cyclist (d. 2004)
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1943 |
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Otto Stern
1888-1969
for his contribution to the development of the molecular ray method and his discovery of the magnetic moment of the proton
USA
Carnegie Institute of Technology Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Oscar of the best picture in 1943 |
Casablanca
directed by Michael Curtiz
with Humphrey Bogart (Rick Blane) and Claude Rains (Captain Louis Renault)
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Designed in 1943 |
The Settee
by Finn Juhl |
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