Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Bésame Mucho (Kiss Me Much)" by Jimmy Dorsey
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: King George VI
(TIME Cover: March the 6th, 1944)
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Famous people born on the 10th of March: |
1415 - Vasili II of Russia (d. 1462)
1503 - Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1564)
1845 - Alexander III of Russia (d. 1894)
1957 - Osama bin Laden, Saudi-born Islamic extremist
1958 - Sharon Stone, American actress
1963 - Neneh Cherry, Swedish musician
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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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