kakorama: a ride into the past
 

 

June 7th, 1944...

Today is Wednesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"I Love You"
by Bing Crosby

 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Sir Harold Alexander

(TIME Cover: June the 5th, 1944)

 Famous people born on the 7th of June:

1848 - Paul Gauguin, French painter (d. 1903)
1868 - Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect, designer, and illustrator (d. 1928)
1883 - Sylvanus Morley, U.S. archaeologist and spy (d. 1948)
1886 - Henri Coanda, Romanian aerodynamics pioneer (d. 1972)
1917 - Dean Martin, American actor (d. 1995)
1928 - James Ivory, American film director
1950 - Gary Graham, American Actor
1953 - Johnny Clegg, South African musician
1958 - Prince, American musician
1981 - Anna Kournikova, Russian tennis player

 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

 
 
 
     

Jump to another date:

    

and click to see what happened:

play crystal ball gazing with the-crystal-ball.com
or translate text into nightingale language on nightingale-song.com
or send singing birthday messages with the kakomessenger
or compose your ringtone for free with the
kakophone machine
 

© Kakophone 2006
Terms of use - Legal information - Webmaster