Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"I Love You" by Bing Crosby
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Jan C. Smuts
(TIME Cover: May the 22nd, 1944)
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Famous people born on the 26th of May: |
1264 - Prince Koreyasu, Japanese shogun (d. 1326)
1478 - Pope Clement VII (d. 1534)
1566 - Mehmed III, Ottoman Emperor (d. 1603)
1878 - Isadora Duncan, American dancer (d. 1927)
1926 - Miles Davis, American Jazz musician
1964 - Lenny Kravitz, American guitarist and singer
1968 - Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark
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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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