Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"My Heart Tells Me (Should I Believe My Heart)" by Glen Gray
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Harrison E. Spangler
(TIME Cover: February the 14th, 1944)
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Famous people born on the 16th of February: |
1032 - Emperor Yingzong of China (d. 1067)
1710 - King Louis XV of France (d. 1774)
1866 - Vyacheslav Ivanov, a Russian poet (d. 1949)
1959 - John McEnroe, American tennis player
1960 - Pete Willis, English guitarist (Def Leppard)
1961 - Andy Taylor, English musician (Duran Duran)
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1944 |
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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
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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)
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Designed in 1944 |
The Captain Chairs N 20
by George Nakashima |
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