kakorama: a ride into the past
 

 

May 28th, 1944...

Today is Sunday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"I Love You"
by Bing Crosby

 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Jan C. Smuts

(TIME Cover: May the 22nd, 1944)

 Famous people born on the 28th of May:

1140 - Xin Qiji, Chinese poet (d. 1207)
1524 - Selim II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1574)
1660 - King George I of Great Britain (d. 1727)
1738 - Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, French physician (d. 1814)
1944 - Rudy Giuliani, Mayor of New York City
1955 - John McGeoch, Scottish musician (Siouxsie and the Banshees) (d. 2004)
1962 - Roland Gift, English musician (Fine Young Cannibals)
1962 - James Michael Tyler, actor-best known as Gunther on 'Friends'.
1968 - Kylie Minogue, Australian actress and singer

 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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