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October 2nd, 1944...

Today is Monday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Swinging on a Star"
by Bing Crosby

 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Van Wyck Brooks

(TIME Cover: October the 2nd, 1944)

 Famous people born on the 2nd of October:

1452 - King Richard III of England (d. 1485)
1737 - Francis Hopkinson, American author and signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1791)
1798 - King Charles Albert of Sardinia (d. 1849)
1869 - Mahatma Gandhi, Bapu, Indian political leader, Father of the Nation (d. 1948)
1890 - Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor (d. 1977)
1904 - Graham Greene, British novelist (d. 1991)
1950 - Michael Rutherford, British musician (Genesis)
1951 - Sting, British musician and actor
1968 - Jana Novotná, Czech tennis player

 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1944


Isidor Isaac Rabi
1989-1988

for his resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei

USA
Columbia University - New York, NY, USA



Photo: nobelprize.org


     
Oscar of the best picture in 1944

Going My Way
directed by Leo McCarey
with Bing Crosby (Father O'Malley) and Barry Fitzgerald (Father Fitzgibbon)

Designed in 1944

The Captain Chairs N 20
by George Nakashima

 
 
 
     

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