| Number-one song in the charts today |
 |
In the USA:
"Sunday, Monday or Always" by Bing Crosby
|
TIME Magazine cover this week |
 |
TIME Magazine: Sam Rayburn
(TIME Cover: September the 27th, 1943)
|
Famous people born on the 28th of September: |
1601 - King Louis XIII of France (d. 1643)
1907 - Bhagat Singh, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1931)
1920 - William Conrad, American actor (d. 1994)
1922 - Arthur Penn, American director
1947 - Liz Torres, American actress and singer
1952 - Dumitru Prunariu, Romanian cosmonaut
1976 - Francesco Totti, Italian footballer
|
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 |
|