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February 8th, 1943...

Today is Monday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"There Are Such Things"
by Tommy Dorsey

 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Anthony Eden

(TIME Cover: February the 8th, 1943)

 Famous people born on the 8th of February:

412 - Proclus, Greek philosopher (d. 487)
1191 - Yaroslav II of Russia (d. 1246)
1291 - King Afonso IV of Portugal (d. 1357)
1700 - Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-born mathematician (d. 1782)
1720 - Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan (d. 1750)
1828 - Jules Verne, French author (d. 1905)
1834 - Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist (d. 1907)
1931 - James Dean, American actor (d. 1955)
1974 - Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, French disc jockey (Daft Punk)

 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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