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: Heinz Guderian
(TIME Cover: August the 7th, 1944)
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Famous people born on the 8th of August: |
1079 - Emperor Horikawa of Japan (d. 1107)
1673 - John Ker, Scottish spy (d. 1726)
1879 - Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1919)
1902 - Paul Dirac, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1984)
1937 - Dustin Hoffman, American actor
1988 - Princess Beatrice of York
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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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