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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Famous people born on the 21st of February: |
1688 - Queen Ulrike Eleonora of Sweden (d. 1741)
1728 - Tsar Peter III of Russia, husband of Catherine the Great (d. 1762)
1875 - Jeanne Calment, French supercentenarian (d. 1997
1885 - Sacha Guitry, Russian dramatist (d. 1957)
1927 - Hubert de Givenchy, French fashion designer
1933 - Nina Simone, American singer (d. 2003)
1937 - King Harald V of Norway
1949 - Jerry Harrison, American musician (Talking Heads)
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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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