Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Swinging on a Star" by Bing Crosby
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Sir Arthur Coningham
(TIME Cover: August the 14th, 1944)
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Famous people born on the 18th of August: |
1414 - Jami, Persian poet (d. 1492)
1750 - Antonio Salieri, Italian composer (d. 1825)
1830 - Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria (d. 1916)
1855 - Alfred Wallis, English artist and mariner (d. 1942)
1933 - Roman Polanski, French-born director and actor
1936 - Robert Redford, American actor and director
1955 - Taher ElGamal, Egyptian scientist
1952 - Patrick Swayze, American actor
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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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