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September 1st, 1943...

Today is Wednesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"In the Blue of Evening"
by Tommy Dorsey

 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: General Ira Eaker

(TIME Cover: August the 30th, 1943)

 Famous people born on the 1st of September:

1651 - Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, Tsaritsa of Russia (d. 1694)
1734 - Joseph Wright of Derby, English painter (d. 1797)
1887 - Blaise Cendrars, Swiss writer (d. 1961)
1922 - Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor (d. 2000)
1946 - Barry Gibb, English singer (Bee Gees)
1957 - Gloria Estefan, Cuban singer
1968 - Mohammed Atta, Egyptian terrorist (d. 2001)
1973 - J. D. Fortune, Canadian singer (INXS)

 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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