Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Sunday, Monday or Always" by Bing Crosby
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Famous people born on the 29th of October: |
1017 - Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1056)
1917 - Eddie Constantine, American actor/singer (d. 1993)
1930 - Niki de Saint Phalle, French sculptor (d. 2002)
1955 - Roger O'Donnell, English musician (The Cure)
1971 - Winona Ryder, American actress
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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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