September 13th, 1944

September 13th, 1944...

Today is Wednesday !

Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "Swinging on a Star" by Bing Crosby

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Leroy Randle Grumman

(TIME Cover: September the 11th, 1944)

Famous people born on the 13th of September:

1087 - John II Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1143)
1739 - Grigori Potemkin, Russian statesman (d. 1791)
1916 - Roald Dahl, Welsh writer (d. 1990)
1924 - Maurice Jarre, French composer
1931 - Barbara Bain, American actress
1944 - Jacqueline Bisset, British actress
1952 - Randy Jones, American musician, The Village People
1967 - Tim Owens, American singer, Iced Earth, ex-Judas Priest

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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