Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"You'll Never Know" by Dick Haymes
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Famous people born on the 12th of August: |
1503 - Christian III of Denmark and Norway (d. 1559)
1604 - Tokugawa Iemitsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1651)
1629 - Tsar Alexei I of Russia (d. 1676)
1643 - King Afonso VI of Portugal (d. 1683)
1762 - King George IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1830)
1881 - Cecil B. DeMille, American director (d. 1959)
1887 - Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1961)
1949 - Mark Knopfler, British guitarist (Dire Straits)
1971 - Pete Sampras, American tennis player
1981 - Djibril Cissé, French footballer
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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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