Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" by Vaughn Monroe
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Henry Ford II
(TIME Cover: February the 4th, 1946)
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Famous people born on the 4th of February: |
1688 - Pierre de Marivaux, French writer (d. 1763)
1881 - Fernand Léger, French painter (d. 1955)
1902 - Charles Lindbergh, American pilot (d. 1974)
1948 - Alice Cooper, American musician
1953 - Kitaro, Japanese composer
1975 - Natalie Imbruglia, Australian musician and actress
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1946 |
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Hermann Joseph Muller
1890-1967
for the discovery of the production of mutations by means of X-ray irradiation
USA
Indiana University - Bloomington, IN, USA
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Oscar of the best picture in 1946 |
The Best Years of Our Lives
directed by William Wyler
with Fredric March (Al Stephenson) and Harold Russell (Homer Parrish)
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Designed in 1946 |
The Radio - Walnut and bakelite
by Charles Eames |
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