August 13th, 1943...

Today is Friday !

TIME Magazine: Major General Terry Allen

(TIME Cover: August the 9th, 1943)

1311 - King Alfonso XI of Castile and Leon (d. 1350)
1313 - Aradia de Toscano, Italian insurrectionist, teacher, and witch
1814 - Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist (d. 1874)
1818 - Lucy Stone, American suffragette (d. 1893
1899 - Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, English film director (d. 1980)
1926 - Fidel Castro, Cuban revolutionary and politician
1952 - Herb Ritts, American photographer (d. 2004)
1967 - Amélie Nothomb, Belgian writer

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

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