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May 14th, 1943...

Today is Friday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"I've Heard That Song Before"
by Harry James

 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Admiral Karl Doenitz

(TIME Cover: May the 10th, 1943)

 Famous people born on the 14th of May:

1316 - Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1378)
1666 - Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (d. 1732)
1710 - King Adolf Frederick of Sweden (d. 1771)
1897 - Sidney Bechet, American musician (d. 1959)
1944 - George Lucas, American film director
1952 - David Byrne, Scottish-American musician (Talking Heads)
1953 - Norodom Sihamoni, King of Cambodia
1959 - Steve Hogarth, British singer (Marillion)

 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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