December 15th, 1944

December 15th, 1944...

Today is Friday !

Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "I'm Making Believe" by The Ink Spots and Ella Fitzgerald

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Lieutenant General Omar Bradley

(TIME Cover: December the 4th, 1944)

Famous people born on the 15th of December:

37 - Nero, Roman Emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty (d. 68)
1859 - L. L. Zamenhof, Russian initiator of Esperanto (d. 1917)
1912 - Ray Eames, American designer (d. 1988)
1939 - Cindy Birdsong, American singer (The Supremes)
1949 - Don Johnson, American actor
1955 - Paul Simonon, British musician (The Clash)
1973 - Surya Bonaly, French-born American figure skater

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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