Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"I've Heard That Song Before" by Harry James
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Madame Chiang
(TIME Cover: March the 1st, 1943)
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Famous people born on the 6th of March: |
1405 - King John II of Castile (d. 1454)
1475 - Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian painter (d. 1564)
1903 - Empress Nagako of Japan (d. 2000)
1928 - Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
1946 - David Gilmour, British musician (Pink Floyd)
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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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