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October 7th, 1944...

Today is Saturday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"You Always Hurt the One You Love"
by Mills Brothers

 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Van Wyck Brooks

(TIME Cover: October the 2nd, 1944)

 Famous people born on the 7th of October:

1471 - King Frederick I of Denmark and Norway (d. 1533)
1748 - King Charles XIII of Sweden (d. 1818)
1841 - King Nicholas I of Montenegro (d. 1921)
1885 - Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d.1962)
1923 - Jean-Paul Riopelle, Québécois member of Les Automatistes (d. 2002)
1931 - Desmond Tutu, South African archbishop and Nobel Laureate
1939 - John Hopcroft, American computer scientist
1952 - Vladimir Putin, 2nd President of Russia
1968 - Thom Yorke, English singer (Radiohead)

 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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