Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"I'll Be Seeing You" by Bing Crosby
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Sidney Hillman
(TIME Cover: July the 24th, 1944)
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Famous people born on the 24th of July: |
1783 - Simón Bolívar, South American liberator (d. 1830)
1802 - Alexandre Dumas, père, French writer (d. 1870)
1860 - Alfons Mucha, Czech artist (d. 1939)
1895 - Robert Graves, English author (d. 1985)
1942 - Chris Sarandon, American actor
1969 - Jennifer Lopez, American actress and singer
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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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