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November 18th, 1943...

Today is Thursday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Paper Doll"
by Mills Brothers

 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: General John J. Pershing

(TIME Cover: November the 15th, 1943)

 Famous people born on the 18th of November:

1772 - Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, German prince (d. 1806)
1787 - Louis-Jacques Daguerre, French inventor and photographer (d. 1851)
1856 - Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov, Grand Duke of Russia (d. 1929)
1907 - Compay Segundo, Cuban musician (Buena Vista Social Club) (d. 2003)
1923 - Alan Shepard, American astronaut (d. 1998)
1940 - Qaboos ibn Sa’id, Sultan of Oman
1942 - Linda Evans, American actress
1960 - Kim Wilde, British singer
1962 - Kirk Hammett, American guitarist (Metallica)

 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1943


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


     
Oscar of the best picture in 1943

Casablanca
directed by Michael Curtiz
with Humphrey Bogart (Rick Blane) and Claude Rains (Captain Louis Renault)

Designed in 1943

The Settee
by Finn Juhl

 
 
 
     

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