Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"There Are Such Things" by Tommy Dorsey
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Famous people born on the 28th of January: |
1457 - King Henry VII of England (d. 1509)
1600 - Pope Clement IX (d. 1669)
1717 - Mustafa III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1774)
1873 - Colette, French writer (d. 1954)
1879 - Francis Picabia, French-born painter and poet (d. 1953)
1950 - Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifah, King of Bahrain
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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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