Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Comin' in on a Wing and a Prayer" by The Song Spinners
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Marshal Vasilevsky
(TIME Cover: July the 5th, 1943)
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Famous people born on the 8th of July: |
1621 - Jean de la Fontaine, French writer (d. 1695)
1839 - John D. Rockefeller, American businessman (d. 1937)
1935 - Vitali Sevastyanov, cosmonaut
1951 - Anjelica Huston, American actress
1970 - Beck, American singer
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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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