December 21st, 1944

December 21st, 1944...

Today is Thursday !

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 21st of December:

1921 - Vampira (Maila Nurmi), Finnish-born actress
1937 - Jane Fonda, American actress and activist
1940 - Frank Zappa, American singer, guitarist and composer (d. 1993)
1942 - Hu Jintao, President of the People's Republic of China
1946 - Carl Wilson, American singer and guitarist (The Beach Boys) (d. 1998)
1954 - Chris Evert, American tennis player
1969 - Julie Delpy, French actress

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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