May 9th, 1944 - kakorama

May 9th, 1944...

Today is Tuesday !

Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "I Love You" by Bing Crosby

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Lieutenant General Wainwright

(TIME Cover: May the 8th, 1944)

Famous people born on the 9th of May:

1147 - Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese shogun (d. 1199)
1439 - Pope Pius III (d. 1503)
1837 - Adam Opel, German engineer and industrialist (b. 1895)
1892 - Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Empress of Austria-Hungary (d. 1989)
1893 - William Moulton Marston, American psychologist, writer (co-creator, Wonder Woman)
1949 - Billy Joel, American musician
1962 - David Gahan, English singer (Depeche Mode)
1968 - Marie-José Perec, French athlete

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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