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November 3rd, 1943...

Today is Wednesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Pistol Packin' Mama"
by Al Dexter

 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Governor Thomas E. Dewey

(TIME Cover: November the 1st, 1943)

 Famous people born on the 3rd of November:

39 - Lucan, Roman poet (d. 65)
1604 - Osman II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1622)
1618 - Aurangzeb, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1707)
1852 - Meiji Emperor, Japanese emperor (d. 1912)
1895 - Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
1900 - Adolf Dassler, founder of Adidas (d. 1978)
1901 - Léopold III of Belgium (d. 1983)
1901 - André Malraux, French writer (d. 1976)
1921 - Charles Bronson, American actor (d. 2003)
1959 - Hal Hartley, American film director and writer

 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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